ETL 501The Dynamic Learning Environment. Bloom's Taxonomy Activity

Revisiting Bloom’s Taxonomy and reading the revised Bloom’s taxonomy was a worthwhile activity as I found the information about “Google Proofing” questions or tasks for students to be a pivotal learning point for myself. Creating and implementing questioning through tasks or class discussion that follow this cognitive process I believe will benefit my students. 

While completing the activity I was easily drawn to the tools Google provide as I currently use some of these tools, however, I consciously sought other tools from sites such as ‘Cool tools for School’ and ‘Web 2.0 Guru’, trying to break the Google habit. The school I currently work in (7-10) implements ALARM, A Learning and Responding Matrix. This Matrix is introduced to stage 4 students with a scaffolding template using verbs similar to the revised Bloom's Taxonomy verbs. With each yearly progress parts of the scaffolding are removed with the expectation that students will implement this scaffolding throughout their stage 6 assessment where applicable, offering reason for the learning level stage 4 and 5 placed in this activity. Further resources could be added with the refinement of my search abilities and better management of my time.