Blog 7

If I were to teach Bloom’s taxonomy using a PowerPoint presentation I would go over the three domains: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. I’d spend a little more time going over the cognitive domain because it’s the most used. Then I’d give the Affective domain some attention by stressing the importance of values. I feel it’s important for students to receive and analyze the values of others. With values comes better understanding of each other’s differences. The Psychomotor will get the least bit of attention. That domain wasn’t even completed by Bloom.

Adaptive technologies can help students with exceptionalities. They can also help students who are gifted. Technology helps students with special needs by helping them overcome their disabilities. For example, screen magnification software and screen readers assist students who are blind or visually impaired. Talented and Gifted Students, commonly referred to as TAGs, can be challenged with social media and internet projects that can connect them with kids similar to them. Adaptive technology also benefits culturally and linguistically diverse students through visuals, cooperative tasks, and hands-on activity. Some challenges I see with using adaptive technologies are making sure that the students who need them use them while those who don’t still learn something and finding ways to interpret them in the curriculum without spending too much time focusing on them.

From the web page assignment I learned how to professionally blog as a teacher. Weebly is much easier and better looking than the pbworks wiki page we had to use for last week’s assignment. The one problem I had with Weebly is the formatting errors. There were times where we would type something out and when it was published the words were overlapping or in a different color. That seems to be a problem with a lot of free blogging sites because I have the same issue with Blogger. Overall the assignment was one of the most fun and least stress inducing that we’ve done so far.