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Strategies to increase students' participation

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Strategies for students who are not paying attention

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Happy 4th July!

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Today, Americans celebrate their Independence Day.
Happy4thJuly! If you to learn more about this date, read here on T&L.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and ICT Tools

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Many teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy and Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in developing and structuring their teaching & learning experiences. Bloom's Digital taxonomy is an attempt to marry Bloom's revised taxonomy and the key verbs to digital approaches and tools. This is not a replacements to the verbs in the revised taxonomy, rather it suppliments and supports these by including recent developments, processes and tools. Many of these tools that are FOSS (Free or Open Source Software). Click here for a comparison betweenTraditional and Digital approaches.

So what is Bloom's Taxonomy?
Benjamin Bloom developed, in 1956, while working at the University of Chicago, a theory on Educational Objectives. He proposed 3 domains or areas:
- Cognitive - person's ability to process and utilize information (thinking), this is what Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is based on; - Affective - This is the role of feeling and attitudes in the learning/education process; - Psychomotor - This i…

Basic Vocabulary (and tips) on Travelling

Benefits of Learning Languages

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What makes a word "real"?