Mind Mapping

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What does Bloom's Taxonomy have to do with mind mapping? How can use each to organize your thinking and learning about instructional technology? 


Bloom's Taxonomy and Mind Mapping are interconnected because in order to create a mind map you have to be able to create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand and remember how to create a plan to teach our students.  It is easier to organize our information based on those different sections of Bloom's Taxonomy and we can make sure that we cover each section critical to learning.  I can use each to learn about instructional technology and to organize my thinking because it will be easy to find websites to fit into each category and with that, organizing my thoughts into different sections will be a lot easier.

Digital Citizenship

 Discuss why you chose to focus on what you did. How will present and reinforce these ideas in your classroom? What resources might you provide to parents who have questions about their children using the Internet in your classroom and at home? How might you prevent and/or deal with cyber bullying?


I chose these three items to focus on because I believe that they are the most important things about the cyber universe to teach your children.  I will reinforce these by teaching my students to not put important things on the internet that could hurt their identity or have someone steal everything they have.  I will help my students protect their reputation by keeping everything they do on the internet appropriate for everyone to see if someone was to stumble across a page of theirs.  I will also help my students think before they post by helping them decide what's important and what's appropriate.  I will use the resources we have used today in class to show parents if they have any questions because these sources provided great information and gave examples of what to do.  I absolutely will not allow any student of mine to be a cyber bully and I will do everything I can to help students who are victims of this bullying.  This is one of the most prevalent sources of suicide in the country and I would never want any of my students' families to have to suffer.  I am going to teach my students to be aware of this and to report it whenever they see or hear someone talking about it.

UDL

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I believe that this counts as "Universal Design for Learning" because it gives pictures, words and help on the side if a student needs to hear what the words are saying.  I really enjoyed this project because it was interesting to learn about how students need different ways of learning to really take things in.  UDL introduced me to many ways of teaching a student and what you could do as a teacher in a certain situation.