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Rethinking the WebQuest Taskonomy: A New Taxonomy of Authentic Constructivist Tasks A conversation on Tapped In, April 23, 2008 with presentation by Bernie Dodge. This is the chat log and images from the TappedIn session

Some new resources and preliminary ideas from Bernie Dodge about a taxonomy of authentic constructivist tasks. From Bernie: "Last night on Tapped In I rolled out some preliminary thoughts about a new taxonomy of constructivist tasks. When it's finished, it will be baked into a set of pages and guides to help novice teachers break out of the read-this-and-make-a-powerpoint-about-it mode of WebQuest design. Comments are very welcome.

Although Bloom's Taxonomy proved useful to teachers and students alike, recent decades gave rise to numerous criticisms, implying that the model was out of date. These criticisms included concerns with setting applicability, contemporary language, and process conceptualization. More recently, Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) have adapted Bloom's model to fit the needs of today's classroom by employing more outcome-oriented language, workable objectives, and changing nouns to active verbs (see "stairs" below). Most notably, knowledge has been converted to remember. In addition, the highest level of development is create rather than evaluate.