blog post 8

Welcome back to my blog. Spring break was a nice time to relax, but now we are back and in full swing with school. Today, I wanted to reflect some on my experience with Diigo. I really enjoyed being to annotate articles online and have all my highlighted portions or notes saved in one location. I think this could be very. useful later on for writing research papers. I will definitely be showing it to my students. It can also be useful for sharing that information with a group as well as having group discussions on one specific topic. Honestly, the list of potential uses goes on forever, so I recommend checking it out.

Bloom's Taxonomy is a model looking at a breakdown of the different parts of learning. The application of PowerPoint can be used at each level of these in order to reinforce it. For example, if I were trying to teach my students multiplication, I could have my students use PowerPoint to create their own presentations with problems they have come up with on their own. This would reinforce the Create part of the Taxonomy. To reinforce the level of Evaluate, I could use PowerPoint to present both incorrectly and correctly worked out multiplication. I then would have my students Evaluate the problems by having them explain why they are correctly and incorrectly worked out. As part of the Analyze step, I would have my students compare and contrast multiplication and division problems using the SmartArt create portion of PowerPoint where I would create a ven diagram for them to use. For the apply step, I would use PowerPoint to present problems for them to solve by applying their knowledge. For the Understand part, I would assign my students a project where they would use PowerPoint to teach the class how to do multiplication. And finally for the Remember step, I would use PowerPoint to repeat the important information slide after slide to increase their learning.

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Teachers are the driving force of the innovation of technology in the field of education. This is because they are the ones who directly use this technology. I found the above website and included a screenshot as well as a link to it. This website talks about the different trends in educational technology which would make it a good one to check out in the future in order to see where the future of technology in the field of education is going. It is important to have a good understanding of this in order to keep up with and continue to promote the advancement in this field.