Many teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy and Bloom's Revised
Taxonomy in developing and structuring their teaching & learning
experiences.
Bloom's Digital taxonomy is an attempt to
marry Bloom's revised taxonomy and the key verbs to digital approaches and
tools. This is not a replacements to the verbs in the revised taxonomy, rather
it suppliments and supports these by including recent developments, processes
and tools. Many of these tools that are FOSS (
Free
or
Open
Source
Software). Click
here for a comparison between
Traditional and Digital approaches. So what is Bloom's Taxonomy? Benjamin Bloom developed, in 1956, while working at
the University of Chicago, a theory on Educational Objectives. He
proposed 3 domains or areas:
- Cognitive - person's ability
to process and utilize information (thinking), this is what
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is based on; -
Affective - This is the role of feeling
and attitudes in the learning/education process; -
Psychomotor - This i…