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Many people go mind numb when defining knowledge. Could you define knowledge by using more than memory? Move away from defining knowledge as something more than memory. Stir interest. Define knowledge by comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Need help? Blooms taxonomy is the Rosetta Stone for categorization of educational objectives. Blooms taxonomy is the key to the modern understanding of educational objective classification. To Professor Bruce, the question of how humans reached Mars looms as incredibly poignant. Explorers of Mars had to own a bank of creative processes. Did those creative processes exploit the cognitive domain? Do you believe categorizing educational objectives helps understanding? Would you say: categorizing educational objectives remains important? Is it important enough for educators to try to change the way we think about instructive taxonomy? The classification of concepts, in concert with the principles that bring about such classification, might loom as heavy thinking, if we stumble around without maps. Guidelines. Your mind's resourcefulness can develop better complex thinking processes. How? The proven principles guide you in this book. When? As multidimensional thinking objectives are presented. This book brings life to Blooms taxonomy through instruction, categorization exercises with feedback, glossaries, and assessments. Professor Bruce and Jean K. Bruce craft the variations on the different thinking level themes, called dimensions, and how the dimensions network. Whether inspired by the potential of your students, Mars exploration, or merely as a human survival affirmation, the text emphasizes how to use the categorization of educational objectives to build thinking skills. Those skills will take you beyond memory level to crazy-brilliant evaluation. 1. Educational characteristics in categorizing educational objectives 2. Higher thinking 3. Classifications of knowledge 4. Writing objectives 5. Curriculum development 6. Educational assessment 7. Educational taxonomy.
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I started writing about Bloom’s taxonomy, when I was a high school teacher, working on my dissertation. As a college professor, 1982, I noticed students having difficulty with objectives. I heard a subliminal voice calling to me, that year, from the attic. I dug through boxes, and pulled out my dissertation. Halfheartedly, I rewrote my dissertation. It was field tested, and given to my students. Meanwhile I kept looking for a book to replace my handouts. A book emerged as my students and I began to gain insight into resolving taxonomy problems. Several years passed before I fully appreciated that the attic voice had been a reaction stirred by a nagging Thomas Edison-like voice saying: I now know a hundred ways "that" cannot work.
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The Thomas Edison-like voice grew strong. Teaching strategies and thinking skills occupied the mind. Edison, now The Dimensional Thinker, said to me, "The rudder, propelling thinking skill development, often goes stock-still." I asked, "How can teachers expedite thinking skills?" The Thinker said, "Fall in love with diversity." As biodiversity conveys details about the variety of life, educational diversity conveys details about the variety of life knowledge. Example: An animal runs in front of your car. You’re unsure of its name. Your mind suffers until you find it. The clarification and naming of: people, places, things, events, and ideas open restricted access, to the art of gaining knowledge.
Professor William C. Bruce is the main author of THE DIMENSIONAL THINKER. Professor Bruce has over thirty years teaching experience. Professor Bruce is the author of nine textbooks and dozens of articles in professional publications. He wrote his first inquiry books, in 1992, Alpha Publishing Co., Inc., Annapolis, Maryland. He has presented papers at national conferences, served as consultant for international corporations, and is considered a foremost authority on inquiry teaching and learning. Professor Bruce remains one of education's resolute inspirations, always keeping in mind the active connection between building ideas, context, and content.
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- PublisherHome Tree Media
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0970480105
- ISBN 13 9780970480101
- BindingCD-ROM
- Number of pages309
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