Even if you have a 21st Century classroom, flexible and adaptable; even if you are a 21st Century teacher ; An adaptor, a communicator, a leader and a learner, a visionary and a model, a collaborator and risk taker; even if your curriculum reflects the new paradigm and you have [...]
I have been thinking about assessment and where we need to head with this for a while. This is the second draft and I would appreciate comments, suggestions etc. Many thanks to Nick and Brett for their comments.
Assessment, in the form of examinations, has be a constant feature of education since the 18th Century. Some [...]
In my last blog on assessment I looked at some of the key words we use in assessment and the fact that these are often Lower Order Thinking skills (LOTS) rather than the Higher Order skills (HOTS).
So I went on to the NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications Authority) web site and downloaded a paper [...]
I have never been a huge fan of examinations. In fact, many current forms of assessment leave me cold. We are required to assess our students; to measure their progress, to track their learning, to identify weakness and perhaps to measure our own performance as educators.
But do they do our students justice?
We know that [...]
Juliette Major (Education Services, Catholic Education Office of Canberra and Goulburn) has written a brilliant rubric for use of Interactive Whiteboards by Teachers. The rubric covers four different areas:
control
interaction
integration
collaboration
In this rubric she has covered everything we would love to see in our use of Interactive whiteboards in the classroom. An excellent effort and well worth [...]
I have been working on another rubric which I would like to share with you.
This is one for using skype (or a similar audio or audio/visual tools) to look at teleconferencing.
The rubric has 2 aspects
1. Applying - this is looking at the planning and communications aspects of the conference call
2. Evaluating - this is the [...]
I have long been a subscriber to Techlearning the ezine on technology and learning. Many of the writers are people whom I respect and admire as they strive to integrate ICT, manage districts or change perceptions on a national and often global scale - Miguel, Sheryl etc.
Well, I have just had a 5 page article [...]
Bloom’s digital Taxonomy has been added as a link to TKI’s ICT community front page.
TKI or Te Kete Ipurangi is the online learning center from the Ministry of Education.
I feel very privileged. Thanks Penny
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This is a new rubric for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
This is a Primary school focused rubric looking at using a search engine to construct and modify a search. Advanced students may utilise simple boolean operators
I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions as I do not usually write Primary school level rubrics. Is it to hard ot [...]
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
This has been an amazing start to the year, I have just returned from our Outdoor education week, where 1200 students are sent to 7 locations for an amazing week of experiential learning.
The week before that I was in
Rotorua presenting a couple of sessions at Learning@school’08 conference. One of my sessions was Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy [...]
