CEDU 531 - Week 5

Higher Level Thinking While Creating a Digital Story

A project that I would like to do with my students is to have them each create a digital story that portrays their own strengths and ambitions. To then share these projects with mainstream teachers at the beginning of a new semester, would not only help the regular education teachers identify who my students are but the teachers would also understand the abilitites of my students more clearly. Rather than simply recalling information, to create a digital story about themselves would require my students to use many higher level thinking skills found on Bloom's Taxonomy. For example, synthesis is the fifth level on the scale and includes arranging, assembling, collecting, composing, creating, designing, organizing, and writing. These are all activities that would be required to complete a digital story. Though requiring more preparation and patience to implement, to have my students complete a project of this nature would be much more satisfying to me than positive results on a spelling test or reading comprehension quiz. Not only would they be learning new skills, but they would be creating an end product they could be proud of while also helping their other teachers to understand how special they are like I do.