Discussion: Analyzing Cognitive Challenge in Activities

Part 1: Individual Work

Briefly note the learning activities incorporated into one of your courses.

Choose one of these activities to discuss with your colleagues.

Part 2: Compare and Share

Reflect on your experence from Part 1. Share a description of the activity, your instructional goals, and the learning events or tasks which students complete. Using Bloom's Taxonomy as a reference, also indicate which higher level and lower level cognitive challenges are present in the activity. Would you like to add more lower level or higher level cognitive challenges to this activity? Why?

Bloom's Taxonomy (.rtf)

Post the information about your activity for your colleagues.

Part 3: Respond

Read the posts and brainstorm ideas for incorporating more cognitive challenges into the activities. Respond to at least two other participants with observations or suggestions about how the current activity could be expanded to include more cognitive challenges.

What themes or trends do you see in the findings?

Part 4: Final Comment

After participating in the discussion, select a posting by another participant that moved you, triggered an idea, or caused you to think about activities in a different way. Answer the following prompt in a final post to this discussion:

I appreciated ___________'s comment on ___________ because it made me...