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Use rich media to engage students’ higher order thinking processes and also to evaluate them.
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Our class blog and other rich media like cartoons, comics, videos, videocasting etc. that we used in class last semester really motivated most students to learn and enabled them to demonstrate better what they had learned.
This coming semester I’m going to continue to use rich media to engage students and encourage them to stretch their minds from remembering and understanding, a lower order of thinking, through to evaluating and creating , a higher order of thinking according to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
I found that not only is using the rich media a great way to teach students, it’s also a great way to evaluate what they have learned. Most students were motivated to do their best on assessments when they were not the traditional paper and pen assignments that I had used in the past, before we had access to all the new technology. It was amazing.
That’s not only been my experience either. Andrew Churches notes
While to many teachers a written report is a suitable medium, to our media savvy students it is boring. Allowing the students to develop their tasks in rich mediums will engage them and an engaged student will learn. Rich Media like, video podcast, enhanced podcasts, cartoons and comics are more likely to engage higher order thinking processes as they plan, design and create their solutions.
See, he agrees.
So of course now, I’m always looking for rich media to use in class to help students develop and strengthen the higher order thinking skills. I recently came across Scott Gardner’s video on You Tube. I think it is especially rich and can hardly wait to use it with my students. It really is a fine example of higher order thinking. Enjoy.
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Sounds like a great year for your students. I use my iPod to hold onto an organize all these great media clips I collect.
Mathew,
Thanks for the tip about how to organize the great clips you find. I’m going to do that too.