Bloom's+Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy

 * Beginning in the 1950’s, Benjamin Bloom categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. His taxonomy follows the thinking process. You can not understand a concept if you do not first remember it, similarly you can not apply knowledge and concepts if you do not understand them. It is a continuum from Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Bloom labels each category with a gerund. || [[image:bbloom1.jpg width="350" height="247"]] ||
 * In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- 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. They are arranged below in increasing order, from low to high. || [[image:bbloom2.jpg]] ||

The upside down pyramid also illustrates the change in 21st Century Learning and Teaching in the amount of time spent on each thinking skill. In a “Connectivism” approach to instruction, where 21st Century Learning is integrated into all content areas, the least amount of class time should be devoted to remembering factual information. Students should be exposed to fact-based content, however, the emphasis should not be on its memorization, but, rather, on how to find that information for oneself and how to make connections to other material. A connectivism model also shows that we should be spending “more” class time on analyzing content and creatively presenting it.