Just started ETL501 Information Environment - thought yes I will get a head start and really get into it so I can be on top of my work. Well that got blown out the window due to work and kids, then getting sick. So here I am the beginning of Week 2 and just getting underway properly.
The first thing we were asked to look at was Bloom's Taxonomy. This was bringing back memories of my early teaching days and I realised that quite often a focus on learning through a specific technique such as Blooms falls to the wayside in the mayhem of teaching. When we were a small school with small numbers we seemed to have the luxury of focusing on these things but as we grew bigger, went to senior schooling the focus seemed on getting work programs done, assessment pieces written, curriculum taught that a lot of the school development of teaching and learning was not being done.
I have been reading up on a number of people's views on the activity of looking for resources for a curricular area and am amazed at the depth some have gone to in looking at the activity. It is something I need to work on I think - clarifying my own thinking. As I read whether they needed more information to complete it accurately I realised that I had done some of that thinking myself (not all though). I realised that I had been thinking about who it would be aimed at, what type of assessment piece they were going to be doing and how they were going to learn it and so on. What I didn't clarify in my own mind was the type of learner or catering for different levels as such. I found that I completed the activity thinking about what I would be looking at doing if I was teaching the class, not what students I would be catering for. That is something I must think about. The one thing in reading some of the posts was the extending of my own understanding of the resources I was thinking about.
