# 8 Education in full Bloom

Last week we visited the Sports Psychology lab, which was really interesting and fun to learn about. One of the things that stood out to me specifically for the use in the classroom was the glasses that we were shown. I found it interesting how we were told that these had been used in the classroom to see the difference in new and experienced teachers in different situations. Along with reversing the situation and using it to see where students look and view. This can be helpful when you have children who are easily distracted so you can know what by and how to help that problem.

In Blooms Taxonomy is almost a guideline when it comes to educational goals, going along the lines of simple to concrete to abstract, the categories and subcategories go with skills and abilities that are considered necessary when it comes to educational goals. PowerPoint can be applied to all of the categories in Blooms Taxonomy in these ways...
Create: Students being able to create their own PowerPoint’s gives them the presentation abilities, creativity used to make it, public presentation along with often times collaboration.
Evaluate: A teacher may use PowerPoint’s to create games to see what level of comprehension the students are at on certain topics to evaluate where they are struggling and improve that.
Analyze: Classifying and or categorizing information or vocabulary words, along with true or false questions and having students compare and contrast topics being able to analyze them deeper.
Apply: One of the best things a teacher could effectively use in the classroom during presentations is the use of discussion questions to really get the students involved and can apply them to their own lives.
Understand: PowerPoint is really great when it comes too presenting great notes making it easy to understand the topic fully.
Remember: Doing short quizzes or random questions in the PowerPoint along with at the end of the presentation will help students remember the lesson.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/12/5-tech-trends-could-supercharge-education-2016
This website shows trends in education that could energize the classroom in the future. This website as a whole is specifically about education and technology constantly coming out with new articles about the new trends in the classroom along with other things. This specific article talks about new technologies in the classroom such as the virtual reality, 3-D printers and wearable technology. These technologies are predicted to become very influential and highly used in the classroom in the future.