Blog 8

The biofeedback device could help teachers determine when certain learning activities are stressing students out, especially when working with special needs students. By knowing when a student is becoming stressed from what is being presented, the teacher now has the ability to change their approach to the lesson, so the student can calm down and grasp the material better.

If a teacher were doing a power point presentation on multiplication with two digit numbers, they could begin with the first step of Bloom’s Taxonomy “Remembering” by having their students first answer questions in the power point about multiplication with single digit numbers to review multiplication. Then for “Understanding” the teacher can have students come up and write out how they go the answers they did. For “Applying” the teacher can have the next slide include a double digit number multiplied by a single digit number and her and the students can work together while having a student write on the board to figure out the answer. For “Analyzing”, another student could come up to the power point and explain each step without any help and then for “Evaluating” another student can come up and explain why the steps must occur in the order they do. Then the teacher can have students all create their own multiplication questions to add to the power point for the students to practice with for “Creating”.

ExtremeTech is a website that has news articles posted to it daily about the different technologies coming out, what these technologies are used for and customer reviews. This will be great for teachers because all the information they need is in one place and they can find the latest technology to incorporate into their classroom. Also by including the articles that are showing the down side to the technology as well, it allows the reader to see all sides of including technology in the classroom. This then makes it easier to decide which technology we should include in our classrooms.

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