Week 2 Reflection

I started the second week with the assignment dealing with web searches. I spent most of the first days reading the articles about the Bloom’s taxonomy. I was aware of it but I hadn’t had a chance to read the newest expansion of it with elements from IT. I kept reading about it from different sources since I believe that it is crucial for a teacher of any subjects. I discussed it with some colleagues, and as I expected, few of them knew much about it. There is much talk about educational reforms in Serbia, and the Bloom’s taxonomy ignorance is one of the arguments why it is urgently necessary, in my opinion.

When I continued to the actual web search engines, I discovered a whole new world. It was really interesting and proved to be time-consuming in my case since I kept looking for more resources… it was almost like a game. It took me a while to browse around and see what there is to be found. When I realized that the time had flown, I got down to actually doing the task for the course. It was a very valuable experience for me. It will be very useful for my research and possible projects.

I thought I was good enough in writing course objectives. The ABCD method of writing them is possibly one of the simplest methods I have come across regarding this topic. It is a simple method, but it still deals with organizing your thoughts, so it took some time writing and rewriting. Simple methods do work best but it is a challenge to put words and thoughts together in a meaningful, yet simple manner. Before I wrote them, I had to seriously reflect upon the course project – group of students, task, why, why not, what can go wrong… I do believe that I am on the right track…