Aimee Stork's Blog – January 2013 Archive (2)

My school currently has what is supposed to be their acceptable use policy in the student handbook. The policy does vary between elementary, middle and high school, but the outline is very general. Parent signature is required as part of the student handbook. The IT department puts together the section in this handbook as well as the one page use policy for staff. The staff policy is

We have evolved from thinking that our highest order is evaluation to knowing that we can be creators.  Marzano teaches that we should push toward our higher order thinking skills.  Marzano's methods, identifying similarities and differences, for instance, are all geared toward helping students move to the higher level of Bloom's Taxonomy.    While many educators in the past focused on absorption of information, Marzano tells us that true learning comes from using Bloom's higher order…