Wednesday, September 13, 2006
My four-year old, Aaron, showed me this morning just how smart he is...Now of course I think all my kids are brilliant, but Aaron may seriously be future Mensa. Anyway, so I was trimming a tree in the backyard, and he asked what I was doing and lamented about not having shade...He asked something about what the tree needed, and I told him trees only need water and sunlight and he corrected me and informed me that they also need AIR. Brilliant, of course. Not just that he learned that, but that he could put it in context and correct me when I was mistaken. Now where this would exactly fall on Bloom's taxonomy is a question; I think its clearly at least "Apply" and maybe "Analyze", which to me is a higher level. Granted other critics would simply say its "Remember" (The lowest level of Bloom's taxonomy), but the confidence that he demonstrated when he explained it to me suggest a higher level, in my humble fatherly opinion...
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