tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290718779979689335.post7602189242122502530..comments2023-05-28T02:22:07.180-07:00Comments on eye of the amoeba: In the midst of a wikipiphanyKen Rodoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791763810744207118noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290718779979689335.post-6067029390008153292007-03-02T19:16:00.000-08:002007-03-02T19:16:00.000-08:00I love the needle-nosed pliers example. I too won...I love the needle-nosed pliers example. I too wondered why the students went right to the powerpoint. As I ran the assignment through the filter of Bloom's Taxonomy, I couldn't help but feel that the assignment although engaging and exposing students to new learning, did not ask students to do more than recall. Students were asked to learn about something and then to share about it....how about taking it to a higher level, students could be applying their new knowlege, using it as a solution to a problem they need to solve, using it to collaborate and gather information from students across the world...basically if we don't expect higher level skills, we won't develop them.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524872696317737560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1290718779979689335.post-65288052945598081832007-03-02T09:46:00.000-08:002007-03-02T09:46:00.000-08:00I had 2 thoughts when reading...1. What a fantast...I had 2 thoughts when reading...<BR/>1. What a fantastic expression of 21st Century skills....they turned to the computers to collaborate, to be more efficient.<BR/>2. Why did they go first to powerpoint when you had given them a new tool that they could have used to present?<BR/><BR/>It reminded me of a great article I once read...from the Journal of Computing in Teacher Education called <I><A HREF="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coe.uh.edu%2Fcourses%2Fcuin3112%2Freadings%2FJCTE_212_president.pdf&ei=TmLoRaKCN4vMwQKhpKDeCQ&usg=__2eqJYs_mf9kkjeE1fxtMWRPIyZk=&sig2=isPQRy1rm8UD8gWVp1Nh8w" REL="nofollow">The Lesson in the Yellow-Handled, Needle-Nosed Pliers</A></I> <BR/><BR/>A wiki does all of the things that a PowerPoint does--AND it is online so folks can reference it later---AND the kids could use what they intended to teach...yet they all turned to the one "tool" in their toolbox that they were most familiar with...we are giving them the tools, are we teaching them to evaluate what tools are the most appropriate, OR was ppt the most appropriate tool for the task?Kristin Hokansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04644948722592900823noreply@blogger.com