Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy in the Saudi EFL Classrooms

Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives Bloom's Taxonomy in the 1950's. This classified and systematic thinking skills and objectives. His taxonomy follows the thinking process. You can not understand a concept if you do not first remember it, similarly you can not relate knowledge and concepts if you do not understand them. It is a range from Lower Order Thinking Skills to Higher Order Thinking Skills. Bloom tags each type with a gerund.

Bloom’s Taxonomy is not evident in Saudi EFL classrooms. Teachers in Saudi Arabia usually apply only first three level of Bloom’s taxonomy in teaching context. They have to develop their teaching process to give student a chance to analyze and evaluate also to become creative.

As a future teacher, I would like to use Bloom’s taxonomy with my students because it gives them a chance to be more creative, autonomous learner, and it operate their cognitive skill.

Website Evaluation

We have chosen a website for English Language Teaching (ELT) for teachers and students also. The website is (http://www.pearsonelt.com).It is a Commercial Site. It is the new home for great teachers. The Authority is for Pearson Education Limited, a registered company in England and Wales. They get to work in lots of different classrooms around the world, from Asia to Latin America, from every day stat schools to privet language schools (PLS). They help the teachers and the students across the world to learn, teach and practice their English skills by looking for combining content, assessment, technology and services every day. This site has free resources for teachers and students to use at home independently. The resources have been created and developed by professionals who worked to design this site to support teachers and help them enjoy their work and improve their potential, their teaching, and further their career. In addition, it is helpful for EFL teachers and students to engage online presentation to help them learn in a fun and interesting way.  The purpose of this website is clear which is being able to improve the teachers' way of teaching English at any level (Primary, Teen , Tertiary)   and have fun in the same time. It has advertisements, which are related to the site and does not have an advertisement that might distract  from  the purpose for visiting. This website have some suitable graphic related to its content. Contact information is listed and there is no dead links (they are well chosen by the author of this website, and they work correctly). It helps students improving their 4 skills in EFL and for teachers also. It has lots of resources online, interactive activities, supplementary materials (at the highest quality, which enable the teachers and the students to achieve their English learning and teaching goals), course test, guides for teachers and useful web links which are reliable. They can share this web site on Facebook and Twitter. They can contact with author to comment or suggest anything they want. There you can communicate with others to response to any article or discussion. There are no misspellings or grammatical errors; everything is well written by the author of this website. You can choose the text size you want to make it clear and easy to read. The choice of website color is nice and attractive.  The style of the page is so professional and well organized, that   has   different sections with different topics. As a result, we found that the website was beneficial, interesting, and easy for both teachers and students. Pearson   website has make this website accessible for all users. The website provides the ability to search  the content. It can be loaded quickly and move around it easily. There is also a site map, which makes browsing the site is very easy

This web site is helpful for English language teachers and students. As a result , we found that this web site is very beneficial , interesting and easy to use it .

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The role of WeQuests in learning a foreign/second language

Webquest defines as "an inquiry- oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing.

the role of the teacher in using webquest are

To design the webquest for her students or she can give them a ready made Webquest.

To give them an idea about what she wants in this lesson

To be as a facilitator of webquest for student to do the task

The role of the students is that

They will learn what is webquest

They have to think critically when thy work

They will work in-group most of the time

Webquests tend to be student-oriented, with students engaged in constructivist activities resulting in shared learning experiences and new knowledge based on enquiry-oriented language use and Web research skills.

As an EFL teacher I will use webquest in my class lesson because that make my student more motivated in the lesson

It is easy for them to use it

Encourage there in collaborative learning

How would English language teachers use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?

With the spread and development of English around the world. Teachers of English language have known that using technology in their classroom help their student to be more motivated and affective for learning L2. Nowadays technology has become apart of our life. Teachers use it in education to improve their students’ language skills like writing and reading. It enhances the importance of “interaction” between teachers and students.  Teachers can control their students away from classroom.

I prefer using blogger, wiki, and delicious program in my education technology will be more helpful for my students and me  

Blogger: A blog is a tool to connect both my students and me through the learning and assessment process. First I will teach them how to make an account in Blogger.com and make welcome post and design their blog page. When they become familiar with using this website I have to give them an assignment to read a chosen topic they prefer and write a post to reflect that topic. That improves their reading and writing skills especially when they comment in their friends post

Wiki: A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit pages using a web browser. I can teach my students how to publish there work throws Internet by giving them an activity to do it and share it with their friends in PBwiki. Students can type in their content along with features such as tables; they can adjust font sizes, insert pictures and even attach files to the page

Delicious: Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. As a teacher I can determine specific webpages to my students to bookmarking in their delicious account. I have to teach my students how to save their bookmarking online. That give them a chance to open there prefer webpage from any device.