The five articles assigned for this blog posting have made me think deeply about the effects of differing pedagogy that students and teachers might use and the importance of the correct use of technology in the classroom. For students, technology in the classroom promotes "critical thinking, creativity and communication" (Hobbs). On the other hand, teachers can use technology to differentiate instruction to meet the students' needs with "systematic depth" (Kuhn). Because the pedagogy discussed in these articles is backed up by proven research, teachers should learn about ways to incorporate the models in their classroom to foster digital/information literacy.
Deep Learning is new to me. The premise of Deep Learning is to develop instruction that is engaging for students so that learning comes naturally. The goal of Deep Learning is to develop students into life-long learners. Technology usage in the Deep Learning model is for students to "gain experience, self-confidence, perseverance, and proactive disposition" (Fullan).
Although Matthew Kuhn seems to think the average classroom teacher does not use Bloom's Taxonomy daily, I often use the graphic when creating lessons and lesson objectives. Blooms help me better visualize the progression of the lesson. I believe there is great benefit from following along with Bloom's Taxonomy as it is an excellent representation of scaffolding for students and teachers to look at when assessing the learning taking place.
Connecting the last article, The Adoption Process II, to education was complex. The connection I made was the types of adopters to teachers with differing levels of experience in teaching. A new teacher might be an early adopter or early majority, taking to the new innovations of technology in the classroom. While a teacher who has been in education for a while might be a late majority or laggard, they like to keep it old school and stick to what they know works. Although it might be beneficial to stick to what you know, I think it is important for teachers of all experience levels to adopt technology into their lessons. Because the world is shifting more technologically, education should also make this shift. Technology's broad outreach of information and connectedness is a great advantage to student' learning.
