Based on the readings of Messing Around, Bloom's new taxonomy and Connectivism: A Learning Theory For A Digitial Age
It's been a while since I did a course on Bloom's taxonomy in university. It's nice to see his model, although being modified, is standing the test of time and is as relevant today as in the past. The model starts with the lower forms of thinking such as remembering and understanding and moves into higher forms of thinking such as applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
- Remembering - Recognizing, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding
- Understanding - Interpreting, Summarizing, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying
- Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
- Analyzing - Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating
- Evaluating - Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring
- Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making
It is also important to note that there is a shift in the needs of learning. In the past it was ideal for a person to know as much as he/she could. However, this is not as effective in today's digital world because knowledge is constantly changing. Today it is more important for people to know how to access knowledge rather than remember it themselves. I think a fine balance of both forms would be best.
For me the major adjustment in Bloom's comes from changing the works to be verbs...or in other words...learning is an active process. We know now from brain research that learning and knowledge acquisition is an active process. That knowledge is formed when we can connect it to pry understanding.
ReplyDeleteYes information is changing at a rapid pace, but more then that, for me, is it's the access to that knowledge. 5.7 billion searches preformed on Google each month. We can find anything.....so do we need to teach content, or just how to find that anything?
Yeah, I agree with you Jeff on all of that, but I still think it is important to teach some content. My reason is that just because someone can access information doesn't mean they will. Therefore, you can have people who know how to find information, but really know little themselves. So I think a healthy mix of both methods would be best. I would agree that only teaching content would be the worse method and really doing the learner a disservice in today's world.
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