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 is manipulative or
physical skills.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a taxonomy of activities and
behaviours that exemplify Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
and Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS). Bloom's allows use to
rank and structure different classroom activities and plan the learning
process. In 2001, Lorin Anderson and others revised Bloom's original work, creating Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.
Bloom’s and Revised Bloom's give us a learning
process:
- Before you can understand a concept or fact you
must remember it;
- To apply a concept you must understand it
first;
- To evaluate a process you must have analysed it.Each layer builds on the previous. The creative process naturally incorporates
these elements. You must remember (even if you are learning as you go),
understand and apply these principles and concepts, analyse and evaluate the
success of your design, the process and concept.
However, we don't need to start at lower order skills and then build
piecemeal throught the taxonomy towards higher order thinking like creativity.
By providing a suitably scaffolded task, the lower order skills of remembering
and understanding become inherent in the learning process. By challenging our
students to be analytical, evaluative or creative, they will within these
processes develop understanding.
Bloom's Original taxonomy
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Bloom's revised taxonomy
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Evaluation
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(HOTS)
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Creating
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Synthesis
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Evaluating
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Analysis
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Analysing
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Application
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Applying
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Comprehension
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Understanding
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Knowledge
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(LOTS)
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Remembering
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HOTS is an abbreviation
for Higher Order Thinking Skills
and LOTS for Lower Order Thinking Skills.
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. This diagram details Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
with some of the original verbs.
Diagram of Bloom's revised Taxonomy showing the flow and process of learning. - A Churches |
If you want to learn more about Bloom's Revised/Digital Taxonomy, read here.
Web 2.0 Tutorials
Without a doubt one of the best resources on the web for web2.0 Technologies is the commoncraft show. Lee LeFever's productions are clear, simple and to the point; most of all they are "In Plain English". Here are the links:
- http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
- http://www.commoncraft.com/photosharing
- http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
- http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
- http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
- http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_show
- http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
- http://www.commoncraft.com/video-googledocs
- http://www.commoncraft.com/mylocation
- http://www.commoncraft.com/wetpaint
SOURCE: Educational Origami
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