Here is short presentation about the Bloom's taxonomy and how it has changed over the years.
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Here is short presentation about the Bloom's taxonomy and how it has changed over the years.
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A wiki is workspace where articles/pages content can be published collaboratively. Wikis work best in education for collaborative and group projects. Students can work on a wiki independently while collaborating on the same document or web page. Teachers can view the history, and see what (and who) added material and what changes and deletions were made. Wikis allow for information to be shared with students, parents, communities, or even the people around the world who has access to the Internet.
For my final project I want to display how one iPad transformed the learning in my Kindergarten classroom. When I first started taking classes towards my instructional technology degree I was very excited to transform my Kindergarten room into using 21st century skills. At first I was a little nervous because
most of the other teachers getting this degree worked with older kid’s second grade to the high school level. I teach Kindergarten, so how much technology can my little ones actually access? I soon found out a lot!! Blended learning can happened in a Kindergarten classroom by having a set of iPads as a center rotation. See my blog below! What I discovered once I actually had an iPad as the power of the video camera and an app called iMovie! With one iPad I transformed the learning in my room. I videoed children learning, reading, teaching others, and I posted them on my classroom website. Each month I would have over 500 hits on my website! That went up from the average last year of 100 a month. It wasn’t just the parents using my website to learn about my classroom, but the children were using it to learn and see themselves! It inspired them to want to write better and produce high quality work so I would pick them to be in a video. There was something magical about the iPad camera. Knowing I had an end of the project assignment coming up I videoed my kids teaching next year’s kids their letter names, sounds and actions for all the letters of the alphabet. My hope is that parents and students will be able to access this video to help them learn their letter names and sounds. I can assign homework as going onto my website and watching the video along with other videos my next year’s kids will make. We have a new handwriting curriculum next year called handwriting without tears. I will video children forming the letters we learn each week along with the words they are supposed to say as they form the letter. The videos will be posted to my website and for homework I can assign the parents and students to watch how to properly hold their pencil and form their letters correctly. The idea of posting videos to my class website to reinforce what we are doing in the classroom is a brilliant idea. In a way it’s like the flipped classroom for the Kindergarten classroom! Managing 20 plus Kindergarteners who seek individual attention is not an easy task. Blended learning can have a huge impact in a Kindergarten classroom. By adding iPads or computers to a station where children rotate through during literacy centers is a step in the right direction. Instead of children being at an independent center playing games with no feedback and a chance to be off task they can be highly engaged using drill and practice software to practice phonics, math and handwriting. The teacher can then use reports generated to identify students’ weaknesses and strengths to provide even more individualized instruction. This allows for students to move at their own pace and at their own level of instruction. This sounds great but what programs are the children actually using? While researching about blended learning I read about different models and how it is used in various classroom settings. The studies I read showed how computers impacted learning and test scores were rising. The articles did not however go into specifics about what programs the children were accessing when rotating to iPads or laptops. So my quest this week was to find some great apps I will eventually use in my Kindergarten class as part of my blended learning model. Do you have an iPad in your classroom? What are your favorite apps? Here are Some of my favorite apps!
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