Bloom's Taxonomy & Social Media Tools steps to evaluate my students' work in a social networking site is essential as it directly relates to learning outcomes. A rubric may be utilized to measure the students understanding for specific outcomes.
Kelli,
What a great strategy. You are making students accountable not only for their learning but for others. It does work!
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Helena,
I agree with you. It also provides us as educators to create a framework for us to gauge our teaching also!
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
In the past, I have assigned a chapter objective for each student to research on YouTube. Once the student locates a video that answers the objective completely, they forward it to me for approval. This approved video is then placed on our course webpage for all the class to view and discuss. An assigned summary of each objective is then submitted to assess if the objective was met. According to Bloom's, this assessment moves from basic knowledge to comprehension. This is definitely a step in the right direction in learning.
Bloom’s Taxonomy allows us to create effective rubrics and create assessment tools that pertain to the assignment. It allows us to better gauge students work against the expectations of the assignments.
Carla,
You have a great strategy. Those Bloom verbs are action verbs that determine what students should do.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Carla,
You have a great strategy. Those Bloom verbs are action verbs that determine what students should do.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Bloom's Taxonomy should include a clear understanding of Maslow's H of Needs as well as Piaget stages of development.I would design and use a rubric that met the objectives, but be certain to include Bloom's verbs (I love them) while making sure you have attended to the other two I mentioned. Evaluating student's work in a social networking site requires close attention to not only what is written, but how it is written. That would be a part of the rubric, of course.
Erin,
Wow, what a great post. Yes, sometimes students see online work as busy work; connecting that work to the objectives and using Bloom to articulate the purpose is a great way to do that.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I agree with Sharon; I like the use of Bloom's Taxonomy to grade and shape student interaction on social media sites because it lends an air of professionalism to the online proceedings. One of my student complaints before is that such online work is merely a distraction, a waste of time. I have used sites like Facebook to try to get students to interact as people, to duplicate that all-important human interaction in class, but I have not wholly been successful so far. Applying Bloom may be just the thing I need to reconsider how I employ these sites and tighten up my instructions of using them while molding how students see how the fit in the course. Great idea!
Joan,
Good point! How would you do that?
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I think it would be very useful in helping students to improve their responses in discussions
Rickey,
Great points. It is up to us as facilitators to help students develop their professional profile in social media. That is such an important use of the tool.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I think it raises the expectation of the student. With social media tools the student is able to demonstrate, discussion and explain concepts and show there understanding of a topic. Logging on and using the social media tools alone is a higher level because you have to understand how to use them and what is considered to be appropriate when using these tools.
Jean,
That is a great use of polling. It is a great way to provide a current quick feedback to engage student discussion.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Make a connection to specific material and enhance it with discussion and interactive examples. For example, in an online live lecture we can take a poll and respond to a concept demonstrated to gain what is understood by the group.
Aldgenette,
How do you use the taxonomy to measure knowledge gained? They are only verbs for outcomes. What ways would you use it?
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
I would use Bloom's Taxonomy to measure knowledge gained.
Jaclyn,
I agree, I think the revised is much more encompassing of learning. Thanks for the link this is great.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Richard,
Great strategy for using blogs. It does provide a venue to really focus on that type of evaluation. The guidelines should reflect that.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
