Week 2 - Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Now to round out the week by discussing Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. In 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom, Bloom’s Taxonomy was created to identify and promote high order thinking within classrooms (eg. analysing or evaluating) and not just remembering the information being delivered. Just like TPACK (see my previous post) this framework is designed to get educators to be aware of how they are teaching their students and suggests a framework to encourage better learning experiences in schools.

Although effective, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been revised to a more accurate suggestion of cognitive processes. The image below describes the different categories;

 

 

These categories also have sub-categories which give strategies to encourage these higher order thinking skills in our pedagogical practices. They can be seen in this image;

 

Another point to consider is that although often display in a hierarchy pyramid format, Bloom’s Taxonomy was never designed to be linear, rather display several forms of cognitive process required for effective higher order thinking. I like this image below as it gives a visual representation of what action is expected from each category;

 

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy will influence planning as it related to many other aspects of pedagogy practice we have already been exposed to, Dimensions of Learning (DoL) for example. Particularly DoL 3 & 4 which require higher order thinking. Below are some examples of ICTs we can use in our classrooms to create a focus on Bloom’s Taxonomy; 

 

Thanks for reading,

Nicole.

­_______________________________________________________________________________

Image Acknowledgements:

Revised Taxonomy: peak educational resources: revisited http://www.peakeducationalresources.blogspot.com

Non-linear Bloom’s: Blooms Taxonomy From Pirates http://www.wrightstuffmusic.com

Bloom’s peacock: djtech – Bloom’s Taxonomy http://www.djtech.wikispaces.com

Web tools: bloom’s revised technology taxonomy http://www.talktechwithme.wordpress.com