Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Bloom's Taxonomy Goes High-Tech

Hi, all.  Our team was recently discussing Bloom's Taxonomy and associated instructional activities.  I was surfing the net this weekend (I wonder if people still say "surfing the net" or if that expression is outdated?) and ran into a great article called Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally.  Check it out if you have a few minutes.  In the article, the author discusses Bloom's Taxonomy of cognitive objectives, developed by Benjamin Bloom in the 1950s.  Think back to the 1950s...hmmm.....many of us cannot because it was before our time.  Now think about the technology back then (or the stories about the technology at least).  From ComputerHope.com:
1950 - the first electronic computer is created in Japan; 1953 - IBM introduces the first IBM computer, the 701; 1954 -  the first commercially-produced transistor radio is announced. 
No computer usage.  No Web 1.0 or Web 2.0....how times have changed.   So back to the article...the author, Andrew Churches, has mapped digital technology to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.  So next time you are uploading and sharing an article, you may be applying knowledge.  When you are mashing, you are analyzing, and when you are posting to our discussion board, you are most likely evaluating.  Now Bloom's Taxonomy has gone high-tech!

Reference:
Churches, Andrew (2008).  Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally.
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4 comments:

  1. Aja_BrownOctober 21, 2010 at 2:21 AM

    Hi Sue:

    Great news article about Bloom's Taxonomy going high tech. The digital taxonomy map provided in the article was just amazing and such a valuable resource for teachers. What I like the most was that it clearly articulated where many of the Web 2.0 technologies as well as asynchronous and synchronous forms of communications were situate in the revised digital taxonomy map.

    * Creating - programming, filming, blogging, Video blogging, mixing, re-mixing, wiki-ing, videocasting, podcasting, directing/producing

    * Evaluating - (Blog/vlog)commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, refactoring, (Alpha & beta) testing

    * Analysing - Mashing, linking, tagging, validating reverse - engineering, cracking

    * Applying - running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing

    * Understanding - Advanced searches, boolean searches, blog journaling, twittering, categorising, commenting, annotating, subscribing

    * Remembering - Bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, social networking, Social bookmarking, favoriting/local bookmarking, Searching, googling

    Reference:
    Churches, A. (2007). Bloom's taxonomy blooms digitally. Retrieved October 21, 2010 from,
    http://techlearning.com/article/8670

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  2. Deborah (Mickey) LordOctober 21, 2010 at 9:23 AM

    Hi Sue,
    This is a great article that marries our recent dept. conversations about building learning objectives to our coursework here. Thanks. It should really help us to quickly identify some technological ways that we can use to introduce the information or skills we're training here at SU to staff.
    Thanks again.
    Mickey

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  3. gbickettOctober 21, 2010 at 2:41 PM

    Its nice to see that some things from education's past are still worthwhile in today's learning environments.

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  4. Sue IDE 611October 23, 2010 at 6:22 PM

    I couldn't agree with you more - it's great to see that Bloom's (Revised) Taxonomy is not only still relevant today but also able to align with this new era of advanced technology. It's a great resource for us all!

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