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GOAL
Strategy: HOTS
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Purpose:
Reading for Essential
Understanding
Review the digital learning tools and skills
listed below to help you with ways to improve
your online learning experience.
Remembering
Remembering relies on the ability to retrieve
material. This is a key skill especially with the
expansion of knowledge and information.
Bullet pointing
– This is analogous to making a list
but in a digital format.
Highlighting
– is a technique for recall. Most
software programs/productivity suites provide
methods to choose and highlight key words and
phrases.
Bookmarking or favorite-ing
– this option
allows you to bookmark and organize websites,
resources and files for later use.
Social networking
– this is where people develop
networks of friends and associates. Networking
forges and creates links between different people.
Like social bookmarks (see below) a social
network can form a key element of collaborating
and networking.
Social bookmarking
– this is an online version of
local bookmarking or favorites. It is more
advanced because you can draw on others'
bookmarks and tags. While higher order thinking
skills like
collaborating
and
sharing
, can and do
make use of these skills, this is its simplest form -
a simple list of sites saved to an online format
rather than locally to the machine.
Searching or "Googling"
- Search engines are
now key elements of students' research. It is as
simple as just entering a key word or phrase into
a the search engine. This skill does not refine the
search beyond the key word or term.
Understanding
Advanced and Boolean Searching
– This is a
more advanced method of searching requiring a
greater depth of understanding to be able to
create, modify and refine searches to suit the
search needs.
Blog Journaling
– This is the use of a blog, where
a student simply "talks" "writes" or "types" in a
daily- or task-specific journal. This level of use
demonstrates a basic level of understanding . The
blog can be used to develop higher level thinking
when used for discussion and collaboration.
Twittering
– The Twitter site's question is "what
are you doing?" This can be a one or two word
answer, but when developed this is a tool can lend
itself to developing understanding and potentially
starting a collaboration.
Categorizing
– digital classification - organizing
and classifying files, web sites and materials using
folders etc.
Commenting and annotating
– a variety of tools
exist that allow the user to comment and annotate
on web pages, .pdf files and other documents. The
user develops understanding by commenting.
This is analogous with writing notes on hand outs,
but is potentially more powerful as you can link
and index these.
DoDEA Virtual High School (DVHS)
Key Terms - Remembering:
Recognizing, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving,
naming, locating, finding, Bullet pointing, highlight-
ing, bookmarking, social networking, Social book-
marking, favorite-ing/local bookmarking, Searching,
Googling.