Photostories!

Here is a Photostory that one of my students made about Thanksgiving. They are relatively easy to make and the kids just love telling stories.

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We used the free software called Photostory 3 for Windows to make it all happen. My school district downloaded it onto every computer, so we all have access to it. I encourage teachers to try it. You will find even the struggling writers love to tell stories!

Digital Blooms

Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding
Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying
Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating
Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring
Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making

Blooms Taxonomy has been around since the 50's. Here is a new take on this list. As we begin designing lessons for the upcoming year, be sure to check out this list to provide our students with 21st century skills they will need to function in the digital age.

Blooms Revised


Jason

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

This is my favorite video about how students in the 21st century learn. It's worth your time to watch this cleverly designed video montage.

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

A Vision of Students Today

I thought this video was thought provoking enough to be worth your time. It's not very long, but you have to be a pretty fast reader to get all of the info.

This is a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

Digital World: Teachers Today

If found this video about what great edtech teachers do in today's society. This is a short commentary about how teachers are changing the culture of education in the 21st century through the use of technology and web 2.0 created at animoto.com