Using Technology to Support Higher Order Skills: Introduction

Last week I was asked to speak at an ELT Conference on how technology can support Higher Order Skills - this is linked to a piece of work I have been doing over the past few months.

I promised that I would post the slides that accompanied the presentation along with some of the links that I mentioned and some expanded notes.

Below are the slides that I used:

Digital Technology and Higher Order Skills

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I’ll pick up the main themes of the presentation over the next week…

To set the Scottish context for this piece of work a must read is the Higher Order Skills Excellence Group Report. The report was published in September 2011 and the group was chaired by Keir Bloomer. 

Comments

[Lorna McAvoy]

Hey Ollie,
Interesting to see Bloom's Taxonomy in your slides...it features so heavily in the NZ curriculum that I couldn't really imagine how I would approach my lessons without it now. Don't know if I'd have given it much of a chance when I was still at Mussey (what are the SMT on about at *this* PD?!) but maybe that's just what happens when you take yourself out of everything you've done before and try to look at things (and try things) from a different approach?
What's amazing for me though, is that the kids 'get it' too - from Y9 right through to Y13, they don't settle for "describing" but they want to #explain", "discuss" and "critically evaluate".
Still trying to keep myself up to date with as much of the new Scottish curriculum developments as possible but things do seem a bit vague. Looking forward to hearing how departments are actually changing and embracing change. (?!)
Lorna.