REACTION: Technology and (Blooms) Taxonomy go hand in hand.
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Being a partial technology cycnic, it’s important for me to note to relief I felt when Maria’s blog outlined just how involved and engaging technology based learning can be. As Maria suggests, it’s all too easy to assume that students want to use technology for ‘fun’ or to obtain the answers quickly and easily via search engines, otherwise known as ’surface learning’. Yet whoever said, besides educational saddists, that learning couldn’t be fun?
Technology enables students to achieve a greater understanding in their learning and possibly contributes to increased sense of worth, as students contribute actively towards the completion of tasks. This is surely one of the most important aspects of education. What’s more, if such learning helps students to build up their knowledge to a point where one can evaluate their own learning, well, even I can’t argue with that.
