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"Kindergarten Zoo Project- Teacher Tube Video"

media type="custom" key="5949929" __** I chose this video mainly because it was created by the same grade level I currently teach. I was specifically looking to see what was posted by Kindergarten students. I really like the idea of posting student work on this site. The little bit of information that was listed about this video said that students had to write 2 sentences about their favorite zoo animal. Each student read what they wrote and it was recorded on the video along with the text being displayed. It was a simple video and I'm sure the students were very excited to see it and hear themselves on it. It is a great way to display what is being done in the classroom and being that it is on teacher tube parents would also have access to it at home so that they could see what their child is doing in school.

media type="custom" key="5632145"__** Teaching has become much more interactive and as a result students are able to be more engaged in the learning process. Technology allows students to have more control of their learning.
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__***Bloom's Analysis with Explanation***__ media type="custom" key="5457979" **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?** Explanation: When I was in K-12 and college, I feel that I mostly addressed the remember and understand levels. I think that at certain points throughout school all levels were being addressed, but for the most part, school was focused on remembering things such as people's names, facts, dates, locations, details, etc. and sometimes trying to understand those things. Very rarely was the upper tiered portion of the pyramid (apply, analyze, evaluate) addressed. However, I do feel that a lot of times I did reach the create portion by having to do projects or book reports to culminate a unit. In K-12, I think teachers just focused on the actual curriculum and making sure that their students retained the information given and understood it to pass a test. In college, there was a lot of addressing of each level when I took my Eled classes and I think that is in part to the fact that Bloom's Taxonomy is a big portion of what teachers need to know to understand how to teach their students and how they learn. I think it was because teachers had to teach future teachers about it so they had to incorporate it in their curriculums. Having all levels addressed though, did help me to learn a lot about different topics. In another graduate course that I took last semester, we reviewed Bloom's and discussed the new levels and we addressed all of them throughout the course of the semester. As a result, I feel that I learned a good deal from that class that I can still recall since there were different approaches being taught.  media type="custom" key="5281495" media type="custom" key="5326673" In schools today, students have become too comfortable with the easy way out of things. They use computers to write up reports instead of handwriting, and they rely on calculators to solve difficult math problems as displayed in my cartoon. The mom is trying to communicate the process of long division through a standard method, and the young boy is reluctant to listen because he will rely on a calculator to do his math which in the end didn't work out for him. Like Dewey stated, "society exists through a process of transmission....which occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger". Students need to learn both old and new methods for completing tasks such as math. Technology will not always be available and in order to survive in society, the old methods still need to be taught and learned.
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