Blooms Revised Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives

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Think Low, Think High—Think Digitally
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of cognitive objectives is one of the best ways to differentiate the curriculum to meet the needs of your students. Because of its six levels of thinking—Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating—Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy can provide a framework for planning units that incorporate low- to high-level thinking activities. An introduction to Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy includes a thorough breakdown of each of the six levels of the revised taxonomy as well as a list of useful print and Internet resources. A free, downloadable set of colorful posters explains each of the six levels of the taxonomy: each poster presents a brief definition of the term as well as sample thinking skills (verbs) that relate to that particular level of the taxonomy.
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Plus: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy blooms digitally on this site.
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A Different Approach to TAKS

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I went to several broadcast workshops where they were using quick clips to help students with TAKS.  This website has more than just the broadcast notes.  http://www.pasadenaisd.org/tcea/

You can also use Photo Story 3 to make videos from still pictures and the students love it!  There was a school that used the incentive of making a Photo Story 3 movie out of the students work (they had to score a 4 to do this) that raised their TAKS writing scores.  They actually had students that had never wanted to learn about revising doing a ton of revising just to get to make a movie out of their story.

Here is another site that has more than just broadcast information on it http://tweb.lisd.net/melissa_hall/index.htm.

One Website from the closing speaker

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This was the one website I was able to get down from the closing speaker http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/ It amazed me how many different teachers had figured out that they had to make the subject appealing to the students.  These teachers chose to use pod-casting, broadcasting, windows movies, etc. to make their subject interesting.  One school started making posters of students stories who scored a 4 on their practice writing.  Then that student was allowed to make an audio pod cast of the story.  Once that was done, they let the student make a windows movie, using still pictures the students took with a small digital camera, about their story.  The school posted the podcast and then the movie on the school website.  They said that after about the 3rd or 4th story that was made into a movie, students who had never wanted to write started revising and revising until they got the necessary 4 on their paper to be allowed to do this.

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