MeganM

Bloom's Taxonomy media type="custom" key="6973469" ﻿As I grew up, I found that the majority of my learning was memorizing facts for tests and very rarely did I truly understand the meaning of why I was learning these different facts. I found this in many different subject areas such as formulas for math, names of elements in science and historical dates in social studies. There were few times that we were able to create in classes such as art and music. I found that I was analyzing and creating more once I was in college and taking courses in my major which was Communication Studies for Broadcasting. In college you are given a lot more freedom to evaluate and create, while also maintaining the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy. I believe a mix of all of these leads to the greatest understanding of subject matter.

Technology in Education media type="custom" key="6915285"

John Dewey's Education as a Necessity of Life... media type="custom" key="6914627" This comic is based off of John Dewey's quote: " Continuity of life means continual readaption of the environment to the needs of living organisms." To me, this means that we need to readapt according to the environment in order to continue survival. In the classroom we need to adapt to the environment to make it a successful learning environment. I believe that this relates to technology because technology is prevalent in the world we live in today. In order to meet the needs of technology aged students, we must integrate these technologies in order to have a successful and relevant learning environment.

John Dewey also stated: " Communication (and hence all social life) is educative." This was the purpose for my inclusion of Facebook into the comic. Although a bit far-fetched to go to class via Facebook, it is a communication and a social network of people, especially students today. According to Dewey, this would provide an opportunity for education and something we should adapt to as part of our changing environment. Facebook is a vehicle of communication, therefore something he would define as adapting to the complexities of technology in society and education.