Good
integration is effecient, effective, cost-justifiable, and most
importantly invisible in the flow of instruction. This means
that the technology is integrated smoothly into the curriculum
where it makes sense to use it. Technology should NEVER be used
for its own sake. A good frame of reference for deciding to
use technology is to examine what impact it will have on reaching
your learning objective through the cognitive domain and what
impact it will have on reaching your learning objective through
the affective domain.
What
is Bloom's Taxonomy of the Affective Domain?
1. Receiving – willingness to receive or
to attend to particular phenomena or stimuli (classroom activities,
textbook, assignment, etc.). Receiving has been divided into
three subcategories: awareness, willingness to receive, and
controlled or selected attention. From the teaching standpoint,
receiving is concerned with getting, holding, and directing
the student’s attention.
2. Responding – refers to active participation
on the part of the student. The student is sufficiently motivated
not to just be willing to attend, but is actively attending.
Responding indicates the desire that a student has become sufficiently
involved in or committed to a subject, activity, etc., so as
to seek it out and gain satisfaction from working with it or
engaging in it.
3. Valuing – the student sees worth or value
in the subject, activity, assignment, etc. An important element
of behavior characterized by valuing is that it is motivated,
not by the desire to comply or obey, but by the individual’s
commitment to the underlying value guiding the behavior. Learning
outcomes in this area are concerned with behavior that is consistent
and stable enough to make the value clearly identifiable
4. Organization – bringing together a complex
of values, possible disparate values, resolving conflicts between
them, and beginning to build an internally consistent value
system. The individual sees how the value relates to those already
held or to new ones that are coming to be held. The integration
of values is less than harmonious; it is a kind of dynamic equilibrium
that is dependent upon salient events at a specific point in
time.
5. Characterization by a Value or Value Complex
– internalization of values have a place in the individual’s
value hierarchy. The values have controlled one’s behavior
for a sufficiently long period of time to have developed a characteristic
“life style.” The behavior is pervasive, consistent,
and predictable.
Technology is uniquely suited to assist a teacher
in relating ideas in multiple sensory and emotive formats to
reach students. However, it is the teacher's choices which are
key in determining what media or program to employ to have an
affective impact upon a student.
What
We Remember
We want to use the technology as much as possible
to facilitate an active learning experience for our students
where they are working collaboratively with the teacher and
the technology to increase their level of understanding. We
can often best do this by using the technology sensibly to keep
them active in the learning environment by doing meaningful
activities.
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