New Bloom's Taxonomy Poster for Teachers

August 29, 2014
Bloom's taxonomy is one of the most popular learning taxonomies ever. Since its release in the last half of the 20th century, it has been widely adopted within the education sector and was used extensively  to design and create learning materials and curriculum content. Bloom's taxonomy maps out learning skills along a thinking continuum that starts with lower order thinking skills in one end  (e.g. remembering and understanding) and moves up in difficulty to the other end that embraces higher order thinking skills (e.g. evaluating and creating).

However, Bloom's taxonomy has been repeatedly modified to suit the requirements of the era in which it is used . Thus, we ended up having  different versions of Blooms taxonomy. The visual below from Fractus Learning captures these versions into three main columns ( Bloom's original taxonomy, Bloom's modified taxonomy, and Bloom's digital taxonomy). To this is added another column for digital activities that go with each of the Bloom's thinking levels. I invite you to check it out and share with us what you think of it.

You can access the original downloadable visual from this link.

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A New Wonderful Bloom's Taxonomy Visual for Teachers

June 23, 2014
Today while I was sifting through my Twitter feeds I came across this wonderful new visual on Bloom's Taxonomy shared by Mindshift. This visual is created by Mia MacMeekin whose work has ben been featured in this blog in several instances in the past. As you can see below, the infographic outlines a set of various action verbs that align with each of Bloom's thinking levels. These verbs could be used by teachers as a way to design classroom activities and assignments that target different Bloom's thinking levels. I am inviting you to have a look at this new graphic and share with your colleagues.



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20 Great Rubrics for Integrating Bloom's Digital Taxonomy in Your Teaching

June 15, 2014
I have always been inspired by the great work of Andrew Church. This guy has been one of my authority sources for everything related to Bloom's digital taxonomy. Andrew provided a detailed account of how teachers can align the thinking levels of Bloom's original taxonomy with the different digital tools. I have already shared here several examples of web tools and mobile apps that  can be used to promote Bloom's digital thinking skills; but today I am sharing with you some wonderful rubrics to help you integrate Bloom's digital taxonomy into your teaching. These rubrics are designed by Andrew Church and are available for free download from this page.

Download this digram from this link

Each of these rubrics is related to a tinkling stage of Bloom's taxonomy. And in each rubric you will find a little introduction about what the rubric is about followed by an illustrative chart of how to use it then at the end you will be given a variety of examples and activities of how to achieve the targeted thinking level with your students.

Here is a quick round-up of all the  Bloom's digital taxonomy rubrics created by Andrew:


Remembering:

• Bookmarking rubric

Understanding:

• Blogging rubric
• Advanced search rubric
• 2 threaded discussion rubric
• Search rubric

Applying

• Wiki editing rubric
• Collaboration rubric
• Skype rubric
• iwb-use-rubric
• IWB taxonomy-students
• Collaborative editing using online WP rubric
• Question rubric

Analysing:

• Data analysis rubric

Evaluating:

• Blogging commenting rubric
• Question rubric
• Validating rubric
• 2 Threaded discussion rubric

Creating:

• Publishing- podcasting rubric
• Digital publishing rubric
• Storyboard rubric

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New Handy Chart on iPad Bloom's Taxonomy Apps

May 4, 2014
Today while I was going through the bulk of Google Docs saved on my Drive i came across this interesting document which features a wide variety of Bloom's iPad apps. Each thinking level of Blooms taxonomy has a set of corresponding apps that can be used to carry it out. All the apps mentioned in this document are hyperlinked so you don't have to worry about searching for them manually.

I tried hard to locate the source of this chart but could not. If anyone of you knows the creator of this work, please let me know so that I can appropriately credit them here. However, the documents is publicly available for anyone to view and download. Click here to access it. Below is only a screenshot of it.

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iPad Apps Aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy and SMAR Model

April 20, 2014
Here is another wonderful conceptualization of how iPad apps can be aligned with both Bloom's Taxonomy and SAMR model. Doug Loader from iSupport has created this terrific Venn diagram featuring the 3 Cs activities : Consumption, collaboration, and Creation. Doug contended that the apps that  we use fall under one of these Cs. For an effective educational use of iPad apps, Doug recommends that teachers make a concise balance between the apps and the 3 Cs posing questions such as :

• Which apps are you consuming (researching, learning specific facts) with?
• Which apps are you collaborating (sharing, building, assessing) with?
• Which apps are you creating (combining, presenting, concluding) with?

As is shown in the diagram below, Doug provided various examples of apps to be used with the 3 Cs. He also assigned the appropriate Bloom's thinking level to each of these categories. In a second diagram, Doug aligned the two models of Blooms Taxonomy and SAMR model with iPad apps. You can check this diagram here.

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Top Visualizations of Bloom's Taxonomies

April 19, 2014
Today while I was sifting through my Twitter feed I came across this  great slideshare entitled "Creative Visualizations of Bloom’s Taxonomies!" shared by Dawsonite. This presentation is created by Zaid Alsagoff, e-learning manager at the International Medical University (IMU).

Zaid aggregates some of the best visuals of Bloom's taxonomy (both the traditional and the revised versions) including the popular wheels I have shared here a while ago. Under each visual is a link to the page where you can view the original visual. I am also adding this work to " Blooms Taxonomy Resources" page here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.

Have a look and share with us what you think of it. Enjoy

Creative Visualizations of Bloom's Taxonomies! from Zaid Alsagoff

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Wonderful Visual Featuring The Three Versions of Bloom's Taxonomy

April 4, 2014
I have been sharing several visuals on Bloom's Taxonomy over the last couple of years but I  never came across a graphic that captures the essence of the three versions of Bloom's taxonomy as the one below. Actually, Bloom's taxonomy comes only into two versions, the original which was created by a  committee of educators chaired by  Benjamin Bloom  sometime in the 1950s of last century. During the 1990s another group of educators and cognitive psychologists led by Lorin Anderson ( a former student of Bloom) updated the original version to make it convenient with the learning needs of the 21st century. I first heard about digital Bloom's taxonomy from the works of Andrew Churches and since then several other scholars have written about it. For more resources on Bloom's Taxonomy, please visit this page.

Source of this graphic: http://mnpsbloom.weebly.com/

   

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