What level of Bloom's...

My undergraduate degree is in athletic training, and I feel the level of Bloom's taxonomy used most depended on our level of schooling and experience. As I would assume anywhere as you learn you start with basics and work up.

As a freshman and sophomore, it was overwhelmingly remember and understand. When we had to learn all of the anatomy and physiology, musculoskeletal tests, and laws, the majority of learning was just memorization and understanding why things worked the way they do. These beginning classes helped give us the background and knowledge that we needed to progress to the upper level classes. We also had to learn all of the tapings used for injury prevention or support and started applying how and when to use them.

Then as a Junior our learning and understanding was utilized in more applicable ways. This is when instead of just watching, we were involved with athletes. This demanded for us to take what we knew and apply it to various situations. This application would vary in areas of managing injuries, to modalities, to time management between sports. During this stage, we also became aware of things that worked well when applied and perhaps did not work well, and also started to touch on evaluating injuries.

Finally as seniors, we further took the application or our learning and were required to evaluate and create. This helped us sum up everything we learned in four year to be able to function in our job. During the latter stages we needed to evaluate injuries, decide on a course of action, and create a plan in order to get that athlete back to action. In other ways we needed to create certain splints or tape jobs that would benefit the athlete to be able to compete.

Overall, I would say the majority of the learning was understanding and application. Yes we touched on all areas, but a lot of it was learning the information, the theory behind it and using it to your benefit. Even in the later years, a lot of the evaluating and creating could not have been done without the understanding, observation, and seeing what was successful from the first couple years.

Why should we as educators integrate technology into the curriculum?

Technology cannot be overlooked in today's classrooms. There are so many different and useful ways to incorporate it into the classroom that we would be doing the students a diservice by not attempting to utilize it. Also students are so advanced and comfortable using technology (especially computers and the internet) that it puts them into a comfort zone and already gives them confidence in their work.
Technology also gives such a variety of information at a moments notice. In many ways it saves time for students when researching and locating information. Many students can benefit from the technology by making their projects or assignments more appealing due to the multitude of options they have with access to the internet or other programs. It also makes presenting information much neater and entertaining. Technology can be utilized to keep students motivated and excited to learn by incorporating music or video clips. There are some teachers that utilize technology very well in their history classes and the students respong very well to it.
As teachers, we also want to differentiate learning and assessment in a variety of ways to incorporate all of the various learning styles and students. By using technology, so many strategies and different lessons can be utilized that touch base with many different kinds of learners. This enables students to realize their strengths and possibly weaknesses and promotes learning by teaching students those strengths.
Using technology and teaching students its uses may also introduce them to possible career options they may be interested in. When a student uses certain programs and realizes they may be very good at something or enjoy certain aspects of technolgy, this may steer them in a direction of possible career options. While other uses on computers or devices may also be preparing them for certain jobs or problems they may have in the future.
Technology is also utilized for students with special needs. Certain assistive devices can be used by struggling students that enables them to keep up with the pace of the class and feel included. Other devices will help certain students hear the lesson or be able to read the text independently. There are so many assistive devices based on technology that help students become productive with everday activities in school.
Technology is also utilized effectively in other ways besides teaching students too. Teachers use it to keep grades and print progress reports, make assessments, or even organize lessons and notes. Special Education teachers utilize technology to write IEP's and other documents. Even other simple things like keeping attendance is much easier when done with technology. There are so many ways we take technology for granted because we are so used to it now. It is also something that continues to grow with an overwhelming capacity of things we can generate and teach with it. Overall technology can be a very useful and powerful teaching tool when used correctly and students can benefit from it in many ways.