Blooms and SAMR

    Today in ICT we were asked to draw together two ideas the concept of Blooms Taxonomy and the idea of ICT as understood by the SAMR model.( reference retrieved on March 2015 : http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html#cognitive)

   Blooms  Taxonomy breaks down knowledge into cognitive domains. Creating, Evaluating, Analysing, Applying, Understanding, and Remembering. This is largely a break down of what we do with knowledge. How we interpret or store data.

   The SAMR model is all about how ICT adds to these processes of learning without being about any of them specifically. How does the digital nature of information allow you to substitute (to electronic media), Augment the content, modify the content (in ways not possible if it were not digital), or Redefine the content to allow learning in a way that could never be accomplished before.

 
(reference retrieved on March 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us0w823KY0g)

So on the one hand you have Blooms Taxonomy, which is all about higher order thinking, on the other hand you have SMAR, which is all about using technology to enhance and ever redefine the learning process. These concepts were ready made to be used together as a functional whole to bring better class outcomes by higher engagement. Allowing higher order thinking where the students are.

  You would not use these concept separately. Rather you would Create a play digitally and present it for all children of that age bracket or in the school to see and give feedback on (redefining the event). Which they can post digitally perhaps in real time.

   Perhaps you actually use statistic software to Analyse real data of the student body or class population (creating a modification not possible without the digital resource).

  These principles can help engage the students mind on there own terms and in there own spaces adding new dimensions to the learning process. None of this would be possible without the digital media to teach these higher order thinking outcomes in.