Subject: Innovation: A Golden Teaching Moment

Posted by Alex Leus on 12/10/2010
In Reply To:Innovation: A Golden Teaching Moment Posted by George Richardson on 12/1/2010

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Amazing! I have sent this link to all my teaching friends. It is a natural fit to SD work. If I were doing a SWOT Analysis this would be one of the strengths of SD compared to other teaching methods. see http://www.businessballs.com/swotanalysisfreetemplate.htm
Alex
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Richard Turnock wrote:

Message fragment from email by George P. Richardson on Dec. 8
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In what seems like a previous life in the late 1960s, I was pursuing a PhD
in mathematics education. At that time there was a robust research result
about Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in mathematics that seems
very relevant here.

SMSG had found that the Bloom sequence (Knowledge, comprehension,
application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) was *not* sequential at
the lower levels when it came to arithmetic.
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Here is experimental evidence by Sugata Mitra that appears to me to show children moving up and down the Bloom Taxonomy (there is now a Bloom Digital Taxonomy). Maybe Bloom is *not* sequential for any subject.

This 18 minute video on TED introduces the ideas of self organizing systems and emergent behavior as it applies to children. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
Here is a new model for education in the 21st Century.

Richard