Cognitive Complexity

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THE WHY

THE HOW

Prensky

Focus is on WHY we should use technology for real-world learning

Brain Gain

Real-World Applications

Critical Thinking Standards should replace Math, English, Science and Social Studies (M.E.S.S.)

Respect for Students

It's important for teachers to listen to student needs and respect what they know before deciding what we need to teach them

Technology

Students see technology as their foundation to learning, not as a roadblock to learning

Maxwell, Stobaugh, Tassell

Chapter 2: Cognitive Complexity

Focus is on HOW we can use technology to practice real-world learning.

Create Excellence Framework

Specializing

Do online research and conduct a scientific experiment

Integrating

Use DebateGraph to evaluate a website

Investigating

Use a web-mapping tool, such as Mindomo

Practicing

Create a video presentation on Knovio

Knowing

Use the "Scatter, Space, Race Test for a Vocabulary Quiz on Quizlet

Real World Learing

Digital Tools for Learning

Access increases the merging of the Create Excellence Framework with the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Yellow sub-topics represent a digital tool used to enhance level of Bloom's or the Create Excellence Framework

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Create

Producing

Use GarageBand to create new song choices and then Poll Everywhere to encourage voting.

Planning

Use LuLu to create a book

Generating

Use DebateGraph to illustrate thinking processes

Evaluate

Critiquing

Use Polldaddy to host an election or take a vote

Checking

Use Edmodo to collaborate and address peer claims

Analyze

Attributing

Use Storybird to create a short story

Organizing

Use ThinkTree to create a diagram

Differentiating

Use online search engines and Microsoft Word to research and report, with notes, on a topic

Apply

Implementing

Students write music on Garage Band

Executing

Students create a Prezi showing how they solved a problem

Understand

Explaining

Create a time line on Tiki-Toki

Comparing

Use interactive organizers on ReadWriteThink

Inferring

Use Sock Puppets app to describe an experiment

Summarizing

Create a story map on ABC Splash

Classifying

Use Padlet as an online collaborative board for group work

Exemplifying

Use Explain Everything to record an explanation

Interpreting

Use Skype to work collaboratively with a student from another school

Remember

Recalling

Use Quizlet to study flashcards

Recognizing

Use Study Stack to study flaschards