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Bloom's Taxonomy

Digital Tools for Teachers - Trainers' Edition

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's taxonomy is a set of three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. We can use the cognitive domain model to measure the levels of engagement and higher-order thinking required from the tasks we design and how we use technology to implement them.

Bloom's Taxonomy

Remember

Understand

Apply

Analyze

Evaluate

Create

Recognizing or remembering facts, terms, basic concepts, or answers without necessarily understanding what they mean.

Demonstrating an understanding of facts by answering questions, organizing, comparing, translating and stating the main ideas.

Using prior knowledge to solve problems, identify connections and relationships and apply knowledge in new situations.

Examining and breaking information into component parts, identifying motives or causes, making inferences, and finding evidence to support information.

Critiquing information and using it as the basis for opinion or standpoint, defending and supporting information.

Making something original based on learning.

Personalization

Reflect on your teaching

Think about the last three technology enhanced tasks you have designed for your students.

Bloom's Taxonomy

• Which level of the taxonomy does each task require from your students?
• How could you redesign or build on those tasks so that they require a higher order level of thinking?
• How could you build a sequence of tasks around a single piece of content to step students up through the levels of the taxonomy?
• How useful do you think the taxonomy is in measuring the impact of a task?
• How important is it for your students to achieve the higher order levels of thinking?
• How can you ensure that each lesson you teach has at least one higher order task included?

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