I read What do teachers share within socialized knowledge communities: A case of Pinterest (Hu et al. 2018) this week and have been thinking about their findings. The authors studied teachers early in their careers and their use of Pinterest. This paper stuck out to me because the items being curated are mathematic resources, and I am a math teacher. Also, I am using Pinterest as the platform for my Knowledge Sharing and Tracking Assignment, so the observations on how Pinterest is being used were interesting.
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| McNulty, N. (2017, November 27). Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Niall McNulty. https://www.niallmcnulty.com/2017/11/blooms-digital-taxonomy/ |
The authors' found that the majority of pins were at the Level 1 and 2 level of the Revised Blooms's Taxonomy. The authors' state
"Despite the prominence of capitalizing on social media for high quality resources and access, our results suggest that teachers may not have curated sufficient high quality resources to promote and maintain higher cognitive demand in engaging students with mathematics." (Hu et al. 2018)
When reading about findings, I wondered if there could be other factors to the high amount of low-level pins. Was this because the lower levels, such as Remember and Understand, are easier to create activities/resources for? So there are more of them available to view and pin. Or because teachers must differentiate in the classroom, they were finding multiple activities to meet different students needs? Maybe the teachers are like me (though I am trying to improve) and pin a million and one resources and never delete unused pins. There is always the obvious, as the authors assume, the teachers are not focusing on higher levels of thinking, and this is why there are significantly less high-level pins. Maybe a combination?
These were just some thoughts I had on the reading. After reading this, I have thought more about how I want to curate my collection of resources in the future. I want to collect with intention and not clutter my digital space.
References:
Hu, S., Torphy, K. T., Opperman, A., Jansen, K., & Lo, Y. J. (2018). What do teachers share within
socialized knowledge communities: A case of Pinterest. Journal of Professional Capital and
Community.
McNulty, N. (2017, November 27). Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Niall McNulty.
https://www.niallmcnulty.com/2017/11/blooms-digital-taxonomy/
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