Tag: Cognitive Stuff
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Bloom’s hourglass
Sam Wineburg & Jack Schneider make an interesting case for inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy in their Education Week article. They show quite handily how being able to analyze before doing anything else in a history class might be the way to see if students really understand the material. And it would seem that they are indeed…
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World Science – Bobby plays an audience
I must be on a video role here. This is not a TED talk, but certainly as interesting.
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Philosophical Babies
From CBC’s The Current: The Philosophical Baby Two hundred years ago, William Wordsworth wrote, The child is the father of the Man. The great romantic poet had a deep-seated belief that children were gifted with more innate, earthborn wisdom than adults. And ask any parent today … when you stare into the wide, unblinking eyes…
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Another run at Bloom
A couple of years ago, I did a quick post on Bloom’s taxonomy and how it might be updated. The Bloom 2.0 that is mentioned there has been prettied up and rehashed here. The revisit offers up some solid options as to how one might go about implementing the use of this updated taxonomy in…
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Quit working, start daydreaming!
On the heels of the WILB work that I couldn’t find a reference for, I find another interesting study that blows a hole in the “time on task” mantra. Kalina Christoff and a team of collaborators at UBC recently published a paper – Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to…