Assignment 5

Applying both blooms taxonomy and the super 3 into lesson plans will ensure a higher lever of thinking and a better sense of information literacy from an early age.   While I do believe that it is a very time consuming process, especially while you are learning as you go to do it, it will provide for a more effective and efficient learning experience for your students.

The way I would do it is to plan according to both strategies, a whole unit.  This way the students will not feel overwhelmed with processes and theory behind their already challenging exercises.  It too would become overly tiresome to apply this higher level of thinking process to ALL lessons.

Educational TED Talk: Stuart Brown Says Play is More Than Fun

Educational TED Talk

What is the purpose of this media/information resource?
Shares the research made by Stuart Brown about the importance of play and how it should be part of anybody’s upbringing. Adults who have grown up dedicating some time to play, grow up to be well rounded beings who are able to analyze, think critically, creatively and to problem solve efficiently (higher order thinking skills).  In the end we become adults who are able to innovate and have a better approach to life.

How is this produced?
Dr. Stuart Brown is presenting at the 2008 Art Center Design Conference.  He is presenting with the aid of a slide show of a couple pictures and closes his presentation with the use of a video.

Who created it?
Dr. Stuart Brown, a play researcher and psychiatrist.

Who is the intended audience? How do you know?
It is targeted at educators in general.  It might seem that it targets early Childhood educators, but most MS, US and even college Educators need to be reminded of the importance of play in life.
It also serves to provide information to parents, counselors, therapist and anybody that is involved in educating and raising children in any type of society.

What is the main message?
That play, from an early age influences on our adult life into happier, smarter adults.  However play is not only limited to our childhood, keeping it up through our lives can make us smarter at any age.

Who benefits and what do they gain?
The world!  We have forgotten how important it is to allow ourselves to be connected with our feelings and emotions. We have left aside play because we feel that as adults it just doesn’t fit in our busy and hectic lives. If there is no humor in life we become a negative version of who we could have been, there is depression, so let loose and allow yourself to feel the joy of play in any way it presents itself.

What would have been my information needs that would have led me to this video?
We are Early Childhood Educators who understand the importance of playing in the early years. We know that allowing children to play in different ways (constructive, imaginative, team free play)  builds up their social, emotional and cognitive skills. We thought that it would touch on play in the early years and even though it does, it goes beyond the early years, it actually tries to make adults understand how much we need play in life in order to be well adjusted.

How would you organize and assess the information found?
The information we found in the video was interesting. The researcher brought up different points of view to the importance of play. He included the scientific, social, emotional and  physical aspects of play. In the end he tried to explain the relationship between all of the already mention aspects and how they all contribute to the quality of our adult life.  We assess this talk as a reliable source because he is an expert in his field and the video comes from a respectable educational source.

Identify and explain the Big6 steps you're applying in this activity.
Task definition- Understanding the objective of this activity.  To find a video on TED talks and answer the questions that followed by posting them on our professional blog.
Information Seeking Strategies- The fact that I we are  interested in ECC topics led us to this video.  When we looked for videos we automatically discard anything that we felt wasn’t relevant for us The word “play” was the one that attracted to us to it.
Location and Access- Go to TED.com and find an educational talk that would suit our needs.
Use of Information- We used the information given in the video to properly address the questions.
Synthesis- We analyzed how this information can be applied in our everyday teaching as well as how it could be applied to different aspects of our personal lives.
Evaluation- After working without a time pressure and having the freedom to look for a video that was appealing to both of us, we were able to focus on the task and work at our own pace.  This helped us to critically evaluate the information better and create a more effective response.