Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Bloom's Revised



Bloom's Taxonomy has been expanded to include digital resources and this is a great site for finding some Web 2.0 tools that will help integrate ITES into your lessons. It also suggests artifacts and question stems to promote higher order thinking.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Connecting ITES to Common Core Standards using Kindergarten Reading Standards


North Carolina Core State and Essential Standards

Example: Kindergarten Reading Common Core Standards
Key ideas and details
Craft and structure
Integration of knowledge and ideas
Range of reading and level of text complexity

Information and Technology Essential Standards for Kindergarten
Sources of Information
Informational Text
Technology as  a Tool
Research Process
Safety and Ethical Issues

Research Process which emphasizes the importance of identifying questions is the obvious partner of the key ideas and details standard. Using KWHL charts would be one way to encocurage students to form questions.

Informational text which encourages classification of fiction and non-fiction material and locating appropriate factural information dovetails with the craft and structure standard. Students can be introduced to online library catalog to assist them in differentiating library materials.  Age-appropriate online  sources of information like Kids InfoBits can be added to sources of factual information to be considered.

Technology as a tool  and safety and ethical issues can both partner all of the reading standards, but are particularly suited to integration of knowledge and ideas. Students can be taught  Internet safety, evaluating the information they find, and respect for the work of others when they use online resources to gather information.  This would be a good time to introduce Searchasaurus and NCWiseOwl. With teacher assistance, they can  use  Powerpoint and Word documents and Web 2.0 tools like VoiceThread to organize and present what they have found.
As elementary library media specialists, we do this type of comparison constantly as we plan lessons for our students. For years, we used the American Library Association's Information Power as a guide. Using curriculum maps for content suggestions and basing many lessons on literature that supports the curricular areas, we then use Information standards to design our lessons.  Middle and high school library media specialists are also familiar with all standards so that they can assist teachers with web sites and other materials to enhance their lessons.