#8 - Sports Psych, Bloom's Taxonomy, Professional Development

Because the equipment was made for sports, it is kind of a reach to use it for teaching purposes. You could use the EMG to understand the physiological and bodily response to stimuli and gauge people's true reactions to stress and other stuff. The big board with flashing lights and numbers that tested simultaneous cognitive and physical response (don't remember what it was called) could be used for autistic kids. But, like I said, it is sort of a reach and not super practical. It is all very expensive and I think money would be better used elsewhere (on technology specifically for teaching and learning in the classroom environment.)

Bloom's taxonomy promotes analyzing and and evaluating rather than just remembering facts. PowerPoint could be used at every level.
Remembering: lists, descriptions, names, diagrams and visual graphics could be put on slides to read and take notes on
Understanding: teacher can elaborate from the slide by explaining the idea or concept. Links and videos can be added to the slides to elaborate as well
Applying: real world situations, links to journals or articles, or discussion questions posted on slides
Analyzing: insert a prezi in the powerpoint to break it down into parts to analyze or make graphs, tables and charts in the power point
Evaluating: directions for an experiment, hyperlink Kahoot
Creating: make their own powerpoint

According to the podcast, professional development is the "life long learning that teachers engage in." Chapter 12 describes how learning needs change over time and new methods of teaching are required. Technology has greatly impacted teacher development. Technology has now enabled opportunities to communicate with other teachers, parents and students and also for teachers to learn from other teachers. Blogs, webinars, diigo, Twitter, and many others contribute to this. Below is a screenshot of a website that would keep teachers (and others) up to date with the technology trends.