In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's Taxonomy. This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. His taxonomy follows the thinking process. In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in 2001. Key to this is the use of verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories and a rearrangement of the sequence within the taxonomy.
This article address the new objectives presented by the emergence and integration of Information and Communication Technologies into the classroom and the lives of our students.
Read the Technology & Learning article at this link: http://techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196605124 to decide if you believe the digital taxonomy more acurately addresses the digital learners of today. How will you use these new categories when you design lessons, projects, assessments, and activities for your students?
2 comments:
Bloom's Taxonomy of cognitive objectives needed to be associated with the new trends of behaviors and actions generated by new technology. I think Lorin Anderson's digital Taxonomy connected the classroom teacher to the fast growing world of technology. As a Spanish teacher, when I design a lesson, I feel the need to find technological means to motivate my students, create strategies, find adaptations to reach the objectives of the classroom. Moreover, When I design activities for the independent practice, academic intervention and academic enrichment, I refer my students to the websites for research.Therefore, there is at least one class activity connected to the new technology and digital Taxonomy.JM
Bloom's Taxonmy of cognitive objectives is a combinition between the Bloom's method ane new technology base on internet and apply information and activities on the internet with Bloom method. It is very clearly that this new techonolgy can adapt in the classroom. As a math teacher, it is very easy to use this Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms digitally in order to teach math method that will enforce students become more and understand math content. For example, students can work as a group to research for the infortion, then present as a project report.
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