Jennifer+B

**Bloom's Taxonomy Spreadsheet**

 * When you were a student in K-12 or college, which levels of Bloom's Taxonomy did you most frequently address? Why do you think that you addressed that level?**

media type="custom" key="4379019" //Explanation//: In high school, the highest levels of Bloom's I reached the most were understanding and applying. Thinking back on it now, I do not think my high school really prepared me for college. In my opinion, I was not pushed to reach my highest potential. I was not pushed to reach the evaluating and creating levels of Bloom's. My AP high school English teacher motivated me to reach the creativity level of Bloom's. That is the class that I feel most prepared me for college.

**Bitstrip's Education and Technology Cartoon**
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**Bitstrip's John Dewey and Technology Cartoon**
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//Explanation//: I was intrigued by Dewey's phrase, "the constant weaving of the social fabric." I found it really interesting when he talked about the passing on of information from the older and wiser to the younger and immature. It is really interesting when he comments on how human beings need to be taught everything from the beginning and that they could not survive physically from birth without being taken care of by other human beings. Many animals can and do survive right from birth without being taken care of or being taught how to survive--it is instinctual for them. But not only do human beings physically need to be taken care of, they intellectually need to be taken care of. Dewey also mentions that with all of the, "technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity" there is so much more than just teaching a young human being how to survive in order to physically stay alive. This is where the weaving of the social fabric comes into play--it is the teaching or passing down of information from one generation to another.

In my opinion, this is closely related with Dewey's idea that "life is a self-renewing process." We need food to replenish our bodies but we need education to replenish our minds. Through teaching others, we are feeding our minds. As teachers by imparting our wisdom to others, we are seeing the information in new and different ways through the eyes of our students. The students are also taking part in this self-renewing process by learning new information. They are feeding their minds so they do not starve and become ignorant.

This cartoon integrates Dewey's theory about the weaving of the social fabric with the technological norms in the year 2015. The soon-to-be parents are concerned that they will not be able to teach their child what he or she needs to know in order to survive technologically in the world. They are not as concerned with teaching their child how to walk or talk...they are more concerned with teaching their child how to use these technologies to be able to keep up.

**United Streaming: 5 Ways Teachers Can Use United Streaming in the Classroom**
1. **Teacher's Resources Panel** "Reading Rockets Launching Young Readers: Reading Rocks" This is an idea teachers can use to motivate students who have a difficult time learning to read. The students made an animated video about their frustrations. This video gave teachers techniques on how to motivate students who have a poor self-concept about reading in a way that engages the students. Teachers could also use this video to show students how to make animation videos to express their feelings. The teachers could apply this to many different subjects, not just reading. If students were having a difficult time in science class, they could make a video to get their frustrations out.

2. **How to Prepare Science Fair Projects** Show the clip for the day and teach the students how to do what was in the clip. For example: Day 1: Pick a science fair topic. Days 2 to 5: Research Techniques - show students video clips about how to do research, how to have a purpose and a hypothesis, how to conduct and record experiments, how to set up exhibit...and so on. Teachers could then have students present their ideas to the class in the form of a presentation before the science fair. This would initiate class discussion about the topic and prepare students to answer questions at the science fair. This is moving up the learning ladder of Bloom's Taxonomy.

3. **After Reading Activity for High School Students** "Who Betrayed Anne Frank" After reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" show the clip because the clip has actual footage of where Anne lived, the times, how the Nazis treated Jewish people. This is better than the movie because this is real. It is not a story. It shows the students the reality of the situation. This could motivate students more to learn about this particular situation. Non-fiction texts are great instigators of motivation and united streaming provides many videos about the actual non-fiction subject. This is a great resource for teachers.

"The Gravity of Descriptive Writing" This clip shows how to use descriptive language when writing about non-fiction topics. It uses actual footage of the space shuttle, //Colombia//, to demonstrate descriptive writing. Each clip breaks down a different component. Teachers could use the clips to demonstrate the components of this type of writing. It also gives the students a chance to practice by using a real event. Often it is difficult for students to write descriptively without seeing visuals. This is a good way to train the students. It is also a good scaffold. The students see a picture and then describe what they are seeing. Eventually the teacher will want to take away the video and have the students write from their imagination; but this a great training tool.
 * 4. Descriptive Writing for High School**

"Homemade Soup" Teachers could use this clip initially to show students the steps needed in writing directions. Teacher could show the clip without sound and students would use the pictures to write the steps for making soup. Students could compare their answers. Then the teacher could show the clip with the sound so students could compare their directions to the video. This is a great tool for teachers. Students have a difficult time breaking down information into steps. Using videos like this one really show them how to do it. Similar to the descriptive writing video, they have pictures to break the steps down for them - this is another scaffold. As the students become more skilled at writing directions, the teacher will take the video away and gradually release the students to write the directions on their own.
 * 5. Middle School - How-to Writing**

**United Streaming Reflection**
I think united streaming is a fantastic resource for educators. Teachers can use it for so many different subject areas. United streaming shows students visually what they need to see. So many students are visual learners, and by showing them a video they will learn so much more. It always amazes me how students become silent when videos start to play. You can actually see the wheels turning in their heads. Last year, I was a teaching assistant to an autistic fifth grade boy. He fixated on certain subjects often and at this time he was fixated on eagles. He read so many books about eagles and always had questions about them. He really wanted to see an eagle. I told him that eagles were difficult to see in the wild but there was a plethora of eagle videos on united streaming. Hallelujah! He was in heaven. Every morning we went to the library and he would watch video after video of eagles. It was really amazing and it brought him so much joy. I think the point of teaching is to engage, motivate, and inspire students - united streaming helps teachers in doing just that!
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