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Category: Teaching

  • 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…

  • The power of the token economy

    I’m sure you’ve seen one of those posters quoting ” – everything you need to know you likely learned in kindergarden – ” One of those things is that part of the world works because you have enough coins/stars/stickers. These are part of the token economy that is present in elementary school classrooms. Kids earn…

  • Hurried toward burnout? Encouragement, Self Esteem and Achievement.

    Over the last few months, I’ve had several reasons to expand my scope of cursory research to beyond how technology can be brought into the classroom. It is certainly something that is still interesting, but I’m firmly of the mind now that it is not the technology that we need to be concerned with (I’ve…

  • The Role of Play in Learning with Technology – an ELI Webinar

    Through some interruptions, I was able to take in most of the recent ELI webinar (Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Barbara Draude presenting) on play, and in classic conference style, the best parts that I took away were from the back/side channel with the main event providing the fuel/fodder. The presentation very rightly started by pointing out…

  • Silly Post-Sec Tech Use

    I finally got to reading this about K-12 teachers and it seems that many of the points are relevant to higher ed instructors as well. From Doug’s original post: 1. Not backing up data. 5. Believing that one’s teaching style need not change to take full advantage of technology. 6. Ignoring the intrinsic interest of…