TPACK's, Bloom's and SAMR's...Oh my!

I say this in the nicest way possible, university never ceases to astound me in how they can display information I already know about in new and exciting ways.
I always thought it was a given to ensure that students know the content but can also apply it and learn to create with it - apparently that falls under 'Bloom's Taxonomy'.

There is much to reflect about after learning about these three concepts that need to be incorporated within the classrooms to ensure that students are receiving the information and can learn to apply it.  Pedagogical competence is paramount in classroom environments as it ensures that students are able to use low order and high order thinking on a daily basis.

TPACK and SAMR

Technical Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) and Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition (SAMR) definitely have aspects that can be linked together.

Depending on one's pedagogical knowledge of a concept (TPACK), will show how the SAMR model can be used to its fullest advantage.  It's understandable that most would start out at the enhancement stage of SAMR, but as their pedagogical skills increased, so would their transformative skills within SAMR.  Knowing how to deliver content is extremely important and the distinguishing feature between creating a good lesson and creating a great lesson!

SAMR and Bloom's Taxonomy

In a nutshell, I really like Bloom's Taxonomy!  It's a great framework that shows exactly the concepts needed for engaging ad efficient learning.  Using Bloom's Taxonomy and SAMR as a conglomerate would ensure that learner's are receiving multiple qualities as well as enhancing and transforming their knowledge.  

Within Bloom's Taxonomy, I really appreciated that 'creating' was at the top of the list of needed features.  In today's rapidly changing world, it is of the upmost importance that learners are able to problem solve and think on their feet.  That is the quality that will ensure people are work place ready.  Using the 'modification' and 'redefinition' of SAMR, will help learners to always be able to transform the knowledge that they already have into something that is going to be useful and needed instead of simply regurgitating information that they may know.

TPACK and Bloom's Taxonomy

Much like using SAMR with Bloom's Taxonomy, it is vital that learning managers are able to know their content and deliver it.  By using Bloom's Taxonomy as a base for what the most important aspects of a learning experience are, TPACK helps to ensure that learning managers are able to deliver the content in the best pedagogical fashion.  It is one thing to know what you want your learners to know but it is just as important, if not more, to know how to deliver it.

The concepts of creating, evaluating and analysing within Bloom's Taxonomy, fall among the same regards of deeper knowledge in higher order thinking.  As stated previously, students need to be problem solvers of the future and showing students how they can become complex thinkers is vital.

In summary, I really like these frameworks.  They will prove to be extremely vital to my knowledge as a future learning manager and I will strive to incorporate these skills and frameworks into all of my future classes.  Youth are much more than machines who need to repeat what a teacher wants them to know.  They need to know how to take information and make it their own and apply it to all situations.