Tech + Ed

Welcome to Tech + Ed! If you are here, you are in need of technology resources to use in your classroom. You have come to the right place. Here you can find tech tools that are aligned with the different Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs. Hopefully, you will find this site useful as we will constantly be evolving and updating the site to better fit the needs of our 21st century learners.

Tech + Ed = Success: Our mission statement

The purpose of Tech + Ed is to support educators in their journey to incorporate technology into their classroom in a meaninfulway. While technology will NEVER replace a great teacher, it does support and assist them to make what they are teaching relevant and meaningful. We want to support your leap of faith into the technology and education realm by giving you one place to find tech resources that align with Bloom's Taxonomy levels of knowledge. State standards drive the curriculum and emphasis the level at which your students should be learning the information. Whether it is analyzing or remembering Tech + Ed will have the tech tools to further your lessons reach and therefore your students grasp of the content being taught.

Bloom's Taxonomy

LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE	VERBS USED	EXAMPLE OUTCOMES
Remembering	Choose, Define, Label, Recall, Tell, Spell, Relate, Show, Select, List, Match	By the end of this lesson students will be able to Define: the words, cell, cell wall, nucleus, Ribosome, and Mitochondrion.
Understanding	Classify, Compare, Contrast, Demonstrate, Interpret, Summarize, Illustrate, Extend, Infer	By the end of this lesson students will be able to: Compare an animal cell and plant cell and determing the differnce.
Applying	Build, Construct, Interview, Organize, Plan, Solve, Utilize, Model, Develop	By the end of this lesson students will be able to: Construct a plant or animal cell out of household materials.
Analyzing	Classify, Discover, Examine, Inspect, Inference, Distinguish, Survey	By the end of this lesson students will be able to: Distinguish a plant cell from an animal cell under a miscroscope.
Evaluating	Assess, Conclude, Defend, Disprove, Interpret, Evaluate, Justify, Opinion, Support	By the end of this lesson students will be able to: Evaluate their peers work over plant and animal cells and provide feed back on the research their peer has completed.
Creating	Build, Change, Discuss, Formulate, Imagine, Improve, Construct, Test, Predict, Plan	By the end of this lesson students will be able to: Discuss their findings with a biologist during a visit to a research center.

The quote below by Benjamin Bloom can apply to everyone, even those outside of education. Helping those with a fixed midset to see that growth is possible is an amazing challenge, but a satisfying one.

"...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believe in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings". A-Z Quotes.com