EDP 643 Social Interactivity Technologies

  Nearpod https://www.nearpod.com/ Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): I could see the student experience of Nearpod going as high as “Evaluate,” depending on what poll questions or open entry responses were used.  Certainly students could work through a Nearpod lesson and and reach “Understand.” Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): There are elements of Nearpod which could fit into “Motion pictures” or “Exhibits” in the Cone, but also the student experience could go as high as “Demonstrations” or maybe “Dramatized Experiences” given the interactivity required. Integration of tool for teaching and learning: Nearpod is designed to add interactive components to any lesson.  Teachers and students can view the lesson from iPads or other mobile devices.  Teachers will add slides with content for students to learn, and then may use built-in Nearpod features to add polls and questions in the midst of the informational slides.  Nearpod also has 450+...

  3DBear https://www.3dbear.io/ Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): If a student is interacting with a VR scenario, the level in Bloom’s Taxonomy could be as high as “Evaluate”, but no lower than “Understand.”  If the student is using the app to create, they could experience the “Create” level. Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): Students could watch or move through a VR experience at the “Motion Pictures” level, but could, depending on the interaction required, go as far as “Contrived Experiences” in the cone if they are responding to scenarios and providing input to solve a situation. Integration of tool for teaching and learning: 3DBear provides a tool to create virtual environments for student learning.  Workplaces and other scenarios can be recorded as VR tutorials that include both real-world video and animated items.  The VR experience can be interspersed with text to help students identify processes or items they are shown (like identify...

  Infogram https://infogram.com/ Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): if students are experiencing an infographic, the level might be “Understand” as they review the infographic and add to their knowledge on a subject.  The level jumps to “Create” if they are actually making the infographic to organize and share their understanding with others.  Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): If students are viewing an infographic created by the instructor, it probably fits into the “Demonstration” areas of the Cone.  But, if students are creating with Infogram, then the level changes to at least “Contrived Experiences” if they are creating something for a case study or “Direct, purposeful experience” if they are sharing information about content in the course or real-life information that they have researched. Integration of tool for teaching and learning: Infogram provides the ability to create interactive infographics to share information on a topic in an...

  Kahoot! https://kahoot.com/schools-u/ Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): Student actions in Kahoot appear to be on the lower order thinking skills end of the taxonomy, in “Recall,” “Understand,” and “Apply.”  It is possible that one could consider choosing among the available answers as  “Analyze” or “Evaluate”, but that seems overly generous. Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): Participating in Kahoot puts students at the more active, participative end of the Cone, somewhere within “Dramatic Participation,” “Contrived Experiences,” and “Direct, Purposeful Experiences.”  They are participating in recalling what they have learned, or sharing an opinion, or demonstrating their understanding. Just answering is not very creative, but it does call on the student to think critically, evaluate the question, and act based on their knowledge. Integration of tool for teaching and learning: Kahoot provides instructors with a tool for quizzing and survey...

  Google Forms https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/ Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): Building and launching a form puts a student right at the level of “Create”, with the results of the survey able to be worked with at each level moving downward in the taxonomy. Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): If a student creates a form to be completed by classmates or other participants, that action is a “direct, purposeful experience” of interacting with others through a form and learning their thoughts and responses on the topic of the form.  Experiencing just the responses from the form without building it puts a student more at the “exhibits” or “demonstrations” section of the Cone. Integration of tool for teaching and learning: Google Forms is an essential tool for not just displaying or analyzing a concept, but for actually collecting survey data so that it can be considered in understanding a topic. Teachers and students can create forms on any given topic, ...

  Popplet https://www.popplet.com/ Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): Popplet could be used for every point in Bloom's Taxonomy depending on how it was utilized:  students could view a Popplet created by an instructor or a fellow student to use to "remember" content, while student-created Popplets give students the experience of showing and growing their "understanding" of a concept.  The act of "creating" a Popplet exhibits the highest level skill, also allowing  a student to "evaluate" and "analyze" content and concepts, while "applying" lessons and skills they were previously taught.   Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): A teacher-created or peer-created graphical organizer in Popplet could be experienced at the point of "exhibits" or "demonstrations" on the Cone.  If students are building their own Popplets as graphical organizers and adding additional content and sub-concepts...