ast week I blogged about my Bloomin' Peacock, a new Bloom's Taxonomy visual I made to share with teachers in a training. Over the years, I have created a number of Bloom's Taxonomy pictures to hang in my classroom for students to refer to. My Bloomin' Peacock was such a hit with you all, I thought I would start sharing the others I've made. Today I revived one that I created for my classroom and added the digital version (again the digital tools displayed relate directly to the Treasures reading curriculum). This is my Um-bloom-ra Bloom's Taxonomy:
Thanks to some great work by Andrew Churches, educators have a basis by which to compare digital techniques to the more traditional standard that Bloom created.
his work provides a great framework from which educators can approach the topic. What follows is a summary of his Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
Good to remember with any mention of Bloom that these are stages before goals. Mastery in one necessitates the next.
Bad teachers tend to shoot for the highest and overshoot the others. These are developmental stages that must be passed from one to the next.
The book includes 9 step-by-step apptivities that focus on each level of Bloom's (some levels have more than one apptivity)
To download this free eBook linking apps to levels of Blooms, open your iBooks app on your iPad, then go to the Store within iBooks. Search for: Hot Apps for HOTS.
Benjamin Bloom created this taxonomy for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. The taxonomy provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions, since professors will characteristically ask questions within particular levels, and if you can determine the levels of questions that will appear on your exams, you will be able to study using appropriate strategies.
Blooms Taxonomy Pyramid Bloom's Taxonomy defines six different levels of thinking. The levels build in increasing order of difficulty from basic, rote memorization to higher (more difficult and sophisticated) levels of critical thinking skills. For example, a test question that requires simple factual recall shows that you have knowledge of the subject. Answering an essay question often requires that you comprehend the facts and perhaps apply the information to a problem. I wish to promote the analysis the subject matter, perhaps by having students break a complex historical process or event into constituent parts. I particularly want students to organize and present pieces of historical evidence it in a new way, to create or synthesize an argument. In order to do so, students must evaluate evidence, making judgments about the validity and accuracy of primary sources.
There is more than one type of learning. A committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom, identified three domains of educational activities:
- Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge)
- Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude)
- Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills)
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His top one is tools to help you integrate blooms taxonomy into your classroom. Very nice.
"Bloom's Taxonomy is talked about a lot in educational circles. However, if you believe a recent survey of visits to 23,000 U.S. classrooms, the higher-order thinking skills it's ideally designed to promote doesn't get much use."
40 pages of examples of how the revised Bloom's Taxonomy applies to a variety of digital applications - Drawing 3 on page 5 is particularly good as it breaks down each level of Blooms into verbs. Example: creating = programming, filming, animating, blogging, video blogging, etc. Great stuff!
Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
The skills required for the digital age give new relevance to the list of skills that we learned back in the old days.
In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories and a rearrangement of the sequence within the taxonomy. They are arranged below in increasing order, from low to high.