What is Bloom's Digital Taxonomy? — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:00most educators are familiar with Bloom's
3. 0:02taxonomy a model that classifies
4. 0:05different levels of human cognition in
5. 0:06thinking learning and understanding as a
6. 0:10teacher you've likely used this taxonomy
7. 0:12to guide the development of curriculum
8. 0:14assessments and instructional strategies
9. 0:17but how is this model affected in an age
10. 0:19of digital technology and how might it
11. 0:21influence your instructional design
12. 0:24let's take a step back Bloom's taxonomy
13. 0:27was created in the 1950s by educational
14. 0:29psychologist ol Benjamin Bloom and his
15. 0:32colleagues the three lower levels
16. 0:35knowledge comprehension and application
17. 0:39are more basic levels of cognition also
18. 0:41called Lower order thinking skills this
19. 0:44would include concrete thinking
20. 0:46memorization and understanding the three
21. 0:49upper levels analysis synthesis and
22. 0:52evaluation referred to as higher order
23. 0:54thinking skills include abstract
24. 0:57critical metacognitive and creative
25. 0:59thinking
26. 1:00some have likened the model to a
27. 1:02mountain or a Stairway where teachers
28. 1:04set learning objectives and design
29. 1:06learning experiences to guide students
30. 1:08to higher levels of thinking the
31. 1:11taxonomy has become an important model
32. 1:13for structuring students learning
33. 1:15processes in the 1990s Bloom's taxonomy
34. 1:18was updated by a group led by David cwal
35. 1:21one of the original authors and Lauren
36. 1:23Anderson a former student of
37. 1:25blooms to make the model relevant to
38. 1:2821st Century Learning one one of their
39. 1:30main changes was updating the nouns
40. 1:32associated with each level to action
41. 1:34oriented verbs this differentiation
42. 1:37positions thinking as an action-based
43. 1:39process rather than one of passive
44. 1:43acquisition for example knowledge was
45. 1:46replaced with remember analysis was
46. 1:48changed to analyze and so on they also
47. 1:52reordered the last two steps evaluation
48. 1:55which was previously at the top was
49. 1:57moved down and creating formerly
50. 1:59synthesis was moved to the top with this
51. 2:03framing Educators have several different
52. 2:05verbs questions and instructional
53. 2:07strategies associated with each
54. 2:10level in recent years there have been
55. 2:12many iterations and metaphors for
56. 2:14Bloom's taxonomy including an orange
57. 2:17where the six levels are distributed
58. 2:19more equally moving cogs representing an
59. 2:22interworking system in which creation is
60. 2:24dependent upon all of the other
61. 2:26aspects or a flipped pyramid
62. 2:29illustrating an emphasis on higher order
63. 2:31thinking
64. 2:33skills but in thinking about how
65. 2:36technology affects this model consider
66. 2:38it as Bloom's digital taxonomy this
67. 2:41updated version aims to expand upon the
68. 2:43skills associated with each level as
69. 2:46technology becomes a more ingrained and
70. 2:48essential part of learning for instance
71. 2:50some propose that new action verbs can
72. 2:53be applied within each level let's take
73. 2:55a look at creating in which Learners are
74. 2:57designing inventing and constructing a
75. 2:59piece piece of work that shows what they
76. 3:01know one could add new digital verbs to
77. 3:04creating like blog remix or program
78. 3:08these verbs refer to possible learning
79. 3:10activities that incorporate digital
80. 3:11Technologies in which students are
81. 3:14creating adding digital verbs to the
82. 3:16taxonomy also promotes 21st century
83. 3:19skills like communication collaboration
84. 3:22creativity and critical
85. 3:24thinking others have taken the six
86. 3:26levels of the taxonomy and aligned them
87. 3:28with technology to to that help Foster
88. 3:30each level for example as a teacher you
89. 3:34can think about how to integrate apps
90. 3:36and websites that help students remember
91. 3:38content like flashcards or drill and
92. 3:41practice tools there are tools that help
93. 3:44students analyze and make sense of
94. 3:46content like reading charts graphs or
95. 3:49mind maps or you can think about what
96. 3:52tools support student creation like
97. 3:54producing podcasting blogging coding
98. 3:57editing and more with these examples the
99. 4:01focus should not necessarily be on the
100. 4:03tools themselves but on how the tools
101. 4:06can be vehicles and transforming student
102. 4:08thinking at different levels so as you
103. 4:11weave technology into your teaching ask
104. 4:13yourself how can the tools you use
105. 4:15support different cognitive levels which
106. 4:18tools help you address lower order
107. 4:20thinking skills and which can help
108. 4:23challenge students higher order thinking
109. 4:26skills consider how Bloom's digital
110. 4:28taxonomy can help you identify ways to
111. 4:30design technology Rich learning
112. 4:33experiences for your students
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