Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Remembering

The focus of my college level educational technology class is to create awareness of how technology can be integrated into content area teaching and to provide students opportunities to learn about resources on the internet. Because of my focus, we do a lot of hands on activities and discussion of how different digital resources might be used in a Math, English, Physical Education class, etc.   The text book used in the course is supplemental and has valuable information that is important to know, much of which is the vocabulary.  I am not someone who sees a lot of value in strictly pen and paper assessments and because I want the students to get hands on experience with technology and to think about how technology and resources discussed in class can be used in their own teaching, I don’t have a lot of objective, fact based assessments.  Because of this, I am not certain that students truly get the most basic concepts or understand when I use certain terminology.  I currently give quizzes which are part objective and part case study based.  Many students do not do well on the vocabulary/objective based section of the quizzes.  Ultimately, I am not certain that they are working on being able to know those terms.

Recently, I found out about Quizlet, a website which allows a teacher to create a list of vocabulary/definitions relevant to his/her class topic.  Once generated, the terms can be used to create flashcards and games for review as well as a quiz based on the vocabulary entered by the teacher.  This website will allow me to share a resource with my students for their own future use as well as require them to interact with the vocabulary in a fun, interactive way prior to their quiz.

Objectives:

• The students will review the vocabulary relevant to the chapter currently being studied with immediate feedback.
• The students will experience the use of a website that they can make use of in their professional career.

The week prior to a quiz, the students will be directed to the quizlet website where I have developed a vocabulary list for the three chapters that will be on the quiz.  The following link takes the reader to the vocabulary list for Chapter 1.  (Quizlet allows the teacher to add to and edit vocabulary lists that are already developed.)

Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Assessment:  Because quizlet.com does not have the functionality to allow teachers to see the results of their students’ scores on their quiz, I would require that the students take screen shots of the activities they complete and most especially the quiz they used to review.  These screen shots should be placed in the student’s technology lab portfolio.  Basically, the assessment will be scored on whether it has been completed or not since the objective is stating that the students will just “review” the vocabulary.  I do anticipate (hope!) that the students will also score better on the vocabulary sections of the quizzes as a result of this activity as well.