that high school’s teachers established a protocol for computer usage in their classrooms.
In Teacher 2’s classroom, the students also used the laptops to complete an activity with
their lab partners where web sites were provided from the teacher. In T3’s math class, the
students each had their own laptop where they logged onto a tutorial program and
continued their work after a previously taught lesson from the instructor. In both of these
classrooms, upon observation, laptop technology was used. In ideal 21 st century
educational settings, all types of technology must be integrated for higher order thinking
and problem solving (Beetham and Sharpe, 2013).
Observing the level of rigor in the students’ computer activity told a different
story. Just as traditional learning can be categorized based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
(Bloom, 1956), the revised version of this well-known scale can be used to determine
what level of higher order thinking students were asked to employ in the two classes
when technology was specifically integrated (Churches, 2007). Basic searching or
“Googling” is listed as level one while podcasting and wiki-ing would fall into highest
level of creating. As students logged onto the laptops for both a science lesson and a math
lesson, students were asked to complete more of a level one activity that involved
completing a worksheet with basic information searched from the Internet. During this
low level activity, students were holding side conversations with each other as they
partnered in science and randomly surfed the web when assigned a math on-line program.
This behavior suggested that instructional delivery might need to be tailored in order to
keep students on task, increase rigor and prevent distractions.
that high school’s teachers established a protocol for computer usage in their classrooms.
In Teacher 2’s classroom, the students also used the laptops to complete an activity with
their lab partners where web sites were provided from the teacher. In T3’s math class, the
students each had their own laptop where they logged onto a tutorial program and
continued their work after a previously taught lesson from the instructor. In both of these
classrooms, upon observation, laptop technology was used. In ideal 21 st century
educational settings, all types of technology must be integrated for higher order thinking
and problem solving (Beetham and Sharpe, 2013).
Observing the level of rigor in the students’ computer activity told a different
story. Just as traditional learning can be categorized based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
(Bloom, 1956), the revised version of this well-known scale can be used to determine
what level of higher order thinking students were asked to employ in the two classes
when technology was specifically integrated (Churches, 2007). Basic searching or
“Googling” is listed as level one while podcasting and wiki-ing would fall into highest
level of creating. As students logged onto the laptops for both a science lesson and a math
lesson, students were asked to complete more of a level one activity that involved
completing a worksheet with basic information searched from the Internet. During this
low level activity, students were holding side conversations with each other as they
partnered in science and randomly surfed the web when assigned a math on-line program.
This behavior suggested that instructional delivery might need to be tailored in order to
keep students on task, increase rigor and prevent distractions.
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