Climbing Pyramid Bloom's with the FLIP Pillars: Introduction

As part of the graduate course in mentioned in my previous post, we are tasked to create a project demonstrating our learning of the FLIP pillars. I've always believed that the best way to demonstrate learning of any topic is to use Bloom's Taxonomy as a guide. For those who are unfamiliar, the image below shows the different ways a person can demonstrate "learning:" remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating.

Pyramid Bloom

  by  nist6dh


In the subsequent blog posts, I will climb Pyramid Bloom by demonstrating my learning of the FLIP pillars, starting with the "understanding" portion, since remembering can't really be demonstrated in a blog post.

Sneaky blogging motive

This blog will chronicle my adventures in the flipped classroom. When I decided to flip my class, I thought it would be a great idea to blog, primarily to keep track of my thoughts. It was an overwhelming idea and I made no movement to complete that task. Today, I begin to blog because I'm taking a graduate course “Flipped Learning - Transforming Teaching and Learning” at Hamline University taught by the great Kristin Daniels (fishing for brownie points here!) I decided a blog would be a great exit project to demonstrate my understanding of flip learning. I suspect there are many others who could not get their act together unless it were for school. I accept that badge...the important thing is that I started!