Blog Post #8 (due 10/31)

It was interesting to see how sports psychology equipment can be used to assess the learning needs of a student. I thought that the bio feedback could be particularly useful for the purposes of helping special needs students. I believe that it could really help teachers understand their students who struggle with communicating their feelings and improve the learning experience.

For the first level of Bloom's Taxonomy of learning, "remember," you could use powerpoint to review concepts of the lesson by listing key points and calling on students to define them and use powerpoint animations to reveal the answer on screen for the class. For "understand" I would use slides to go into more detail and illustrate the idea or concept. Next slide for "apply" could provide a sample question and have students apply concepts from previous slides to solve the question. For the "analyze" step I would use ask students questions that would help them make connections between ideas and after discussion among class reveal my answers. For "evaluate" I would give feedback to students and weigh the arguments in the the slide. For the final step of "create" I would use my final slide to give students the assignment for them to apply the things they learned in the lesson.


Social networking is a great way of staying updated in the changes happening all around the world on a variety of different topics. To stay informed of changes in technology trends depends on what pages you subscribe to. Throughout the course we have used twitter and it is an excellent example for watching trends as they come up and die out.

https://www.fractuslearning.com/2012/05/25/twitter-follow-education-technology/

and https://twitter.com/edutopia is an example from that list.

This website lists some good pages to follow on twitter to remain updated on current and trending changes in tech. Of course twitter is not the only social media that you can subscribe yourself to in order to be in the know. Facebook can even be used despite its personal networking aspect as it was grown in time to pass on lots of information. You can create teacher groups in facebook to share with your fellow teachers new changes and trends as well.