Ollie Bray's presentation on Digital Technology and Higher order Thinking Skills and ELT Consultants Higher Order Skills Conference - October 2011.

1. Using Technology to Support Higher Order Skills Ollie Bray National Adviser Emerging Technologies in Learning Education Scotland www.educationscotland.gov.uk

3. Warm up…

4. “If I eat crunchy nut corn flakes but they are no longer crunchy, are they still crunchy nut corn flakes?”

5. “Is a Pineapple an Apple?”

6. “Is a broken down car parked?” Ian Gilbert

7. www.thunks.co.uk (Questions to make your brain go ouch!)

9. “Google can teach you history BUT it can’t teach you to love history” Sir John Jones (SLF 2011)

10. What to think rather than how to think Culture change…

11. Bloom’staxonomy Higher Order Thinking Skills Lower Order Thinking Skills Benjamin Bloom (1956)

12. Bloom’s (revised) taxonomy Higher Order Thinking Skills Lower Order Thinking Skills Anderson & Krathwoh (2000)

13. verbs nouns Higher Order Thinking Skills Higher Order Thinking Skills Lower Order Thinking Skills Lower Order Thinking Skills

14. Bloom's as a learning process 1) Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it 2) Before we can apply the concept we must understand it 3) Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it 4) Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it 5) Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluated it

15. Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Making & Building Creating Higher Order Thinking Skills Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring Evaluation Analysing Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating Applying Understanding Implementing, carrying out, using & executing Remembering Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, & Explaining Lower Order Thinking Skills Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation & Locating/Finding

16. How technology has changed things… Shop Socialize Finance Play

17. Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Making, Building, Programming, Filming, Animating, Blogging, Video Blogging, Mixing, Remixing, Wiki-ing, Publishing, Videocasting, Podcasting, Directing/producing Creating Higher Order Thinking Skills Checking, Hypothesising, Critiquing, Experimenting, Judging, Testing, Detecting, Monitoring (Blog/vlog), commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, (Alpha & beta) testing Evaluation Analysing Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, reverseengineering, cracking, mind-mapping Applying Understanding Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, doing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing. Remembering Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, Explaining, Advanced searches, Boolean searches, Blog journalling, Twittering, Categorising and tagging, Commenting, Annotating, Subscribing. Lower Order Thinking Skills Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation, Locating/Finding, Bullet pointing, Highlighting, Bookmarking, Social networking, Social bookmarking, Favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching, Googling

18. Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Making, Building, Programming, Filming, Animating, Blogging, Video Blogging, Mixing, Remixing, Wiki-ing, Publishing, Videocasting, Podcasting, Directing/producing Creating Higher Order Thinking Skills Checking, Hypothesising, Critiquing, Experimenting, Judging, Testing, Detecting, Monitoring (Blog/vlog), commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, (Alpha & beta) testing Evaluation Analysing Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, reverseengineering, cracking, mind-mapping Applying Understanding Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, doing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing. Remembering Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, Explaining, Advanced searches, Boolean searches, Blog journalling, Twittering, Categorising and tagging, Commenting, Annotating, Subscribing. Lower Order Thinking Skills Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation, Locating/Finding, Bullet pointing, Highlighting, Bookmarking, Social networking, Social bookmarking, Favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching, Googling

19. Digital Taxonomy V1.0

20. Digital Taxonomy V2.0

21. Vs

22. Vs

24. Understanding

25. 'This article needs additional citation for verification' 'This article reads like an advertisement’ 'This article contradicts itself’ 'This article contradicts another article’ ‘The factual accuracy is disputed’

26. Evaluating

27. Evaluating

28. Creating

29. Creating

32. Educators need to understand what digital tools can do… This is not the same as how to use every digital tool

34. twitter.com/ukwarcabinet

36. Tools to achieve, recall, understanding, application, analysis, evaluation and creativity

37. “Collaboration is not a 21st Century Skill, it is a 21stCentury Essential” Collaboration

38. Key traits or abilities in 21st Century Employees (according to Google) “Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn’t useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.” Communication Skills “Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations.” Team Players

39. Knowledge is important

40. So are teachers!

41. Scaffolding

42. Remembering Recalling specific information (Recall or recognition of specific information). Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation, Locating/Finding, Bullet pointing, Highlighting, Bookmarking, Social networking, Social bookmarking, Favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching & Googling

44. Understanding

45. Understanding Explaining/defining ideas or concepts (Understanding of given information). Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, Explaining, Advanced searches, Boolean searches, Blog journalling, Twittering, Categorisingand tagging, Commenting, Annotating & Subscribing.

49. Applying Using information, concepts and ideas in another familiar situation (Using strategies, concepts, principles and theories in new situations). Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, doing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing & editing.

50. Dr Marcus de Sautoy

53. http://primarygamesarena.com/

55. Sim City

56. Analysing Breaking information into parts/components to explore/develop/construct understandings and relationships (Breaking information down into its component elements). Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, reverseengineering, cracking & mind-mapping.

58. Copyright

62. Evaluating Justifying a decision, solution, answer or course of action (Judge/evaluate/analysethe value of ideas, concepts, materials and methods by developing/constructing and applying standards and criteria). Checking, Hypothesising, Critiquing, Experimenting, Judging, Testing, Detecting, Monitoring (Blog/vlog), commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting & (Alpha & beta) testing.

66. Creating Generating/creating new ideas,products, or ways of viewing things (Putting together/combining ideas, concepts or elements to develop/construct/build an original idea or engage/stimulate in creative thinking). Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Devising, Making, Building, Programming, Filming, Animating, Blogging, Video Blogging, Mixing, Remixing, Wiki-ing, Publishing, Videocasting, Podcasting & Directing/producing.

67. Games design

68. There is an App for that…

70. What impact does technology have on the skills agenda?

71. Does technology make highly skilled jobs less skilled?

73. "...technology is not going to make teaching easier, it's going to make it different." Chris Kennedy Superintendent of Schools West Vancouver School District

74. www.olliebray.com Ollie Bray ollie.bray@educationscotland.gov.uk www.educationscotland.gov.uk