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DVHS Continuous School Improvement
GOAL #2
SęėĆęĊČĞ : HOTS
BđĔĔĒ’Ę DĎČĎęĆđ TĆĝĔēĔĒĞ
Purpose:
Reading for Essential
Understanding
RĊĒĊĒćĊėĎēČ
This element of the taxonomy does infer the
retrieval of material. This is a key element given
the growth in knowledge and information. The
digital additions and their explanations are as
follows:
Bullet pointing
– This is analogous to listing but
in a digital format.
Highlighting
– This is a key element of most
productivity suites; encouraging students to pick
out and highlight key words and phrases is a
technique for recall.
Bookmarking or favorite‐ing
– this is where the
students mark for later use web sites, resources
and ϐiles. Students can then organize these.
Social networking
– this is where people develop
networks of friends and associates. It 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. At its
simplest the student is just entering a key word or
phrase into the basic entry pane of the search
engine. This skill does not reϐine the search
beyond the key word or term.
UēĉĊėĘęĆēĉĎēČ
The digital additions and their explanations are as
follows:
Advanced and Boolean Searching
– This is a
progression from the previous category. Students
require a greater depth of understanding to be
able to create, modify and reϐine searches to suit
their search needs.
Blog Journaling
– This is the simplest of the uses
for a blog, where a student simply "talks" "writes"
or "types" a daily‐ or task‐speciϐic journal. This
shows a basic understanding of the activity
reported upon. The blog can be used to develop
higher level thinking when used for discussion
and collaboration.
Twittering
– The Twitter site's fundamental
question is "what are you doing?" This can be, in
its most simplistic form, a one or two word
answer, but when developed this is a tool that
lends itself to developing understanding and
potentially starting collaboration.
Categorizing
– digital classiϐication ‐ organizing
and classifying ϐiles, 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 ϐiles and other documents. The
user is developing understanding by simply
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.
Updated 12/01/17