BLOOM'S DIGITAL TAXONOMY

• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy


  A method of classifying learning objectives according to the different levels of thinking skills required
• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy


  • The 1950s-era taxonomy is generally depicted as a pyramid, with lower-order thinking skills at the bottom
  • Once lower-order skills are mastered, learners can practice higher-order skills
• Original Bloom's Taxonomy skills


  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Application
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis
  • Evaluation
• Updated Bloom's Taxonomy skills


  • Remember
  • Understand
  • Apply
  • Analyze
  • Create
  • Evaluate
• The updated taxonomy placed "create" at the top of the pyramid, recognizing that learning and thinking are active processes and places creation of new ideas and patterns at the pinnacle of human thought
• Lower-order thinking skills


  Basic cognitive activities, including knowledge, understanding, and application
• Higher-order thinking skills


  More abstract, require more cognitive processing, useful in new and novel situations, including analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
• Lower-order thinking skills


  • Knowledge - knowing and remembering facts
  • Understanding - categorizing or comparing information
  • Application - using acquired knowledge in new situations
• Higher-order thinking skills


  • Analysis - figuring out connections between concepts and ideas, identifying causes, and finding evidence to support a statement
  • Synthesis - identifying or building a pattern from diverse elements, combining parts to create a whole
  • Evaluation - forming, presenting, and defending conclusions based on judgments about information, determining the validity of ideas
• Bloom's Taxonomy provides a structure for guiding learning
• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy


  A version created in 2008 by Andrew Churches, adding verbs that address forms of learning and creating that reflect the digital age
• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy offers lists of related verbs that instructional designers can use to develop learning objectives and create content that progresses from lower-order to higher-order skills
• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy verbs and tasks


  • Remember - bookmark, google, link, search
  • Understand - annotate, Boolean search, journal, tweet
  • Apply - chart, display, execute, present, upload
  • Analyze - attribute, deconstruct, illustrate, mash, mind map
  • Evaluate - comment, editorialize, moderate, network, post
  • Create - blog, film, integrate, podcast, program, publish