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In the sports lab we were shown these type of glasses that are used to track eye movement and I believe something else but can not recall right now. But focusing on the eye movement for education I believe it could be used to track students who have ADHD specially to track their attention span when the teacher is up and teaching. To see how long, they can focus on the teacher and are paying attention, verse when they move their eyes off the teacher and get distracted.

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy with a PowerPoint for a 2^nd grade classroom. The Bloom’s Taxonomy has 6 steps: Create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, remember.  When using a PowerPoint starting at Create, creating a PowerPoint for a lesson on the list of spelling words for the week. I’m not sure how you could evaluate this type of lesson. For analyze we can find words that we already know and relate them to the new words, giving the students a base to understanding the new words. For applying there would be a sentence with each words so that the child can get use to seeing it being used in a sentence. For understanding we will discuss the words and and answer any questions that they students may have, also would discuss if the words are a noun, verb etc. Remembering is the last step we would review the words through and game with PowerPoint for the students.

This website called edtech update is an overall website set up for educators to keep up to date with different technologies that are being used in some classrooms. The site is broken into different groups or sections depending what you are looking for. So I looked at blended learning and clicked on adaptive learning. In this section they have articles that are published from other sites such as article “How adaptive learning really works” published by techlearning. This website uses published articles and places it all in one place for educators to find.

http://www.edtechupdate.com/