Bloom’s Taxonomy is an important model that outlines a hierarchical classification of different levels of cognitive thinking designed to help structure educational objectives or outcomes to support learning. It consists of six levels:
Bloom’s Taxonomy, knowledge is the basis of the six cognitive processes: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The authors of the new framework also identified different types of knowledge used in cognition: factual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and metacognitive knowledge. The lower-order thinking skills remain at the base of the pyramid with the higher-order skills at the pinnacle. To learn more about the new Bloom’s, check out this guide to the revised revision.
By Dr. Kecia Ray published February 16, 202
Levels of Bloom’s taxonomy
Creating
Students show their learning by designing, constructing, and inventing work that demonstrates what students learned.
Evaluating
students judge and assess information critically
Analyzing
Students break down knowledge to understand it better
Applying
Students create and combine the parts to form something new
Understanding
Understanding refers to understanding what the fact means and interpreting exampling, summarizing, and explaining information.
Remembering
Refers to recognizing or recalling facts or figures
It is a valuable framework that outlines various levels of learning and what tools ad activities teachers need to teach at each. In addition, the framework can help with tool assessment. Employing blooms’ digital taxonomy allows teachers to understand how students learn and think at each level, identify gaps in knowledge, how easy or hard content is for students, and stake necessary steps to scaffolding and plan curriculum.
Blooms digital taxonomy
The use of technology has been integrated into the model, creating what is now known as Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. A popular image that districts often create is the pyramid with the digital resources available and promoted in the district aligned with the appropriate category. This image would vary depending on district resources but it is very helpful to create something such as this for teachers to connect technology to the levels of Bloom’s
technological tools in each of the Blooms principles
By Dr. Kecia Ray published February 16, 202
Using Blooms Taxanomy Technological
Creating –To produce new or original work. Tools – Animating, blogging, filming, podcasting, publishing, simulating, wiki building, video blogging, programming, directing
Evaluating – To justify a stand or decision; to make judgements based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing. Tools – Grading, networking, rating, testing, reflecting, reviewing, blog commenting, posting, moderating
Analyzing – To draw connections among ideas, concepts, or determining how each part interrelate to an overall structure or purpose. Tools – Mashing, mind mapping, surveying, linking, validating
Applying – To use information in new situations such as models, diagrams, or presentations. Tools – Calculating, Charting, editing, hacking, presenting, uploading, operating, sharing with a group
Understanding – To explain ideas, concepts, or construct meaning from written material or graphics. Tools – Advanced searching, annotating, blog journaling, tweeting, tagging, commenting, subscribing
Remembering – To recall facts, basic concepts, or retrieval of material. Tools – Bookmarking, copying, googling, bullet-pointing, highlighting, group networking, searching
By Obiageli Sneed May 9, 2016
