blog for chap 3-6 in Taxonmy

When I first started to read chapter 3 and looking at the tables it looked confusing, time consuming and like a lot of work. It wasn't apparent to me why it would be beneficial to categorize objectives and I was curious about how it would help me be a more effective teacher. I'm glad that the chapter ended by giving 6 answers to my doubts. It gave me more motivation to want to fully understand the tables and ideas behind the next few chapters. Especially of interest to me was that it will help with the "instruction and assessment questions". (In my initial reflection, the problems with assessment was the issue I listed and have been "dealing" with.) I also like their answer "It will make life easier!". Currently, it doesn't seem like this is true. Right now I couldn't "confidently" place objectives/activities/assessments intot he "correct" cell nor could I do it in even a remotely timely manner. I anticipate this will become easier and easier with practice.
I'm a little confused with the metacognitive knowledge section in the table. They stated they had thought about making the table 3-dimensial - I think it makes more sense to me to think of it in that capacity. It doesn't seem that I necessarily need objectives that fall into the metacognitive cells, but just activities or assessments.
In Bransford there was an example where a teacher let her students come up with questions and concepts they wanted to learn about. I imagine that although she does this, she still has some key objectives that whe wants fulfilled and works want they want into it. I can see how using the taxonomy table would be beneficial to "stay on target" and accomplish those goals. I gurantee my objectives/activites/assessments are not always going to be alligned. Again, I know this will become easier with practice. I also know that numerous times as a student, my teachers objectives/activities/assessments were not alligned either.
I think that to foster a learner environment and to be a flexible teacher one's lesson plan could change at any time - objectives may change, activities, and thus assessment - I can see how the taxonmy table will eventually "make life easier" - when you can menally think about your objective shifting to a different cell and automatically knowing how you should change the assessment - but thats going to take some time.