Week 4 ~ Blooms Taxonomy

Blooms Digital Taxonomy is a remake of Blooms revised Taxonomy which comes from the original Blooms Taxonomy that was created in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom. I know that this all seems a little confusing and hectic but all three of the Taxonomy's are actually saying the same thing. The revised Taxonomy started by changing the first domain which is cognitive to use verb words. Instead of using the words knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, the revised taxonomy used remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. This made the taxonomy more accessible and easier to understand how each element fits together.  Educational Origami's article on Blooms Digital Taxonomy explains how those words fit together and how a child gets from a low order thinking skill to a high level thinking skill.

Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it
Before we can apply the concept we must understand it
Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it
Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it
Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluated.

As a musician, I see this every time I teach a lesson or even when I play my instrument. In order to understand how to play notes on an instrument you need to first memorize what buttons to push, then you need to understand how to play, how to set an embouchure and press the buttons while you play. You can then evaluate how you sounded what worked and didn't work then analyze why it didn't work what happened or what didn't happen. After you mastered those skills you can then create music.

Blooms Taxonomy also talks about collaboration. Technology is a perfect way to collaborate. There are so many sites to bring parents into their student's education, there are ways to bring other students from different schools or even countries. The ways to collaborate keep growing the new ideas and thoughts that it can bring can help students develop their low order thinking skills.

Blooms Taxonomy has two other domains:
The Affective domain which deals with emotions and attitudes
The Psychomotor domain which deals with manipulatives and physical skills