{"id":4543,"date":"2018-01-14T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:11:48","slug":"thinkingandcollaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/14\/thinkingandcollaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking and Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As some of you have already alluded to, a good use of technology would be any technology that engages students at the higher levels of Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy and SAMR model. Instead of technology that merely digitizes traditional learning, students should be encouraged to develop critical and design thinking skills while solidifying core knowledge. For instance in the science classroom, 3D modeling, 3D printers, and laser cutters, enable students to iterate and solve real-world problems in physics and structural design. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, a good use of technology would also include any technology that enables collaboration and communication. Most jobs in the real-world require people to be effective in group settings. It is quite rare for one person to take on a large scale problem. Many current applications including Slack and Google Apps are already being used effectively in the math and science classroom to facilitate communication and group work. The more connected students are to the teacher and other students, the more likely misconceptions will be eliminated due to the exposure to different minds; student universes can no longer be private in environments that are strongly interconnected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is obvious that these ideas require a lot of work from teachers to implement effectively. However, school administrators also need to have a similar mindset and understanding of what makes digital technology &#8220;good&#8221;. Budgets need to shift quickly to eliminate technologies that have little impact on student learning and shift to technologies that do. For instance, ten years ago SMARTBoards were found in many modern math and science classrooms; teachers and administrators have now realized that the large budget required can be invested in better ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Krathwohl, D. R. (2002). A revision of Bloom&#8217;s taxonomy: An overview.\u00a0<i>Theory into practice<\/i>,\u00a0<i>41<\/i>(4), 212-218.<\/p>\n<p>Puentedura, R. (2010). SAMR and TPCK: Intro to advanced practice.\u00a0<i>Retrieved February<\/i>,\u00a0<i>12<\/i>, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you have already alluded to, a good use of technology would be any technology that engages students at the higher levels of Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy and SAMR model. Instead of technology that merely digitizes traditional learning, students should be encouraged to develop critical and design thinking skills while solidifying core knowledge. For instance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-unpacking-assumptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}