#8 Sports Lab, Bloom's Taxonomy, and Professional Development

#1: The last thing we experienced was a board that lit up with lights after times and different places, which at the same exact time, numbers or a math problem would pop up in the middle of the board. The student, athlete, or anyone would have to press the lights at the same time as they are saying the numbers or the answer to the equation out loud. I believe this would be beneficial to schools because this could strengthen the students' brain power, or if they were disabled physically, it could also help strengthen their muscles for just normal movement. I think this could be a fun math game that all students would want to play, and the teacher could even give out rewards at the end to the student who answer all the questions right, the fastest student, etc.

#2: Bloom's Taxonomy levels, from top to bottom, are create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember. Using PowerPoint, for the first level, I would design an abstract presentation that would keep the student's interested. For the second level, I would present the students a question or opinion, and get them discussing what their standpoint is on the specific topic. For the third level, I would show them all the different opinions their peers had and get them all together in small groups to let them compare their own ideas in their own words. For the fourth level, using that same question or opinion I did before, I would show them the real life example I got that information from, and then see if they could put that same idea into a whole new situation. For the fifth level, I would show them how all their ideas could come together as one, and present all the different opinions that one idea resulted in. For the last level, I would give them a pop quiz at the end of the presentation to see if all the information I was talking about got through to them.

#3:

http://www.securedgenetworks.com/blog/7-must-know-classroom-technology-trends-that-are-changing-education
This website shows all of the technology trends that make the biggest impacts on education. It describes how all of these technologies are changing education for the better. It explains the description of every technology and what it does, and also how it has benefited technology. It also says how all technologies are going to be flipped to the bad side if there is no wireless network, or a good source of power.