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Bloom's Revised "Digital" Taxonomy
"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" - Dr. Suess
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| The animation above illustrates Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy (1956) as revised by Lorin Anderson (2001). The layers of the cake represent the levels of learning with each layer representing increasing complexity. Presented with each layer are sample verbs and products that describe actions or creations at that level of cognitive development. Layer one is Remembering where memory is used to produce definitions, fact charts, lists, or recitations. Layer two, Understanding, includes producing drawings or summaries to demonstrate understanding. Applying is layer three where concepts are applied to new situations through products like models, presentations, interviews or simulations. Distinguishing between the parts is the focus of layer four, Analyzing, by creating spreadsheets, surveys, charts, or diagrams. Critiques, recommendations, and reports are some of the products that can be created to demonstrate layer five which is identified as Evaluating. At the top, layer six, Creating, puts the parts together in a new way with products such as puppet shows, cartoons, or new games. All of the levels of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy come together to form a complete learning experience just as the animation comes together to form a complete cake. Animation developed and created by Melanie Argiro, Mary Forehand, Julia Osteen, and Wanda Taylor (04/2005).
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| 1 | REMEMBERING
Can you recall information?
Retrieving, recalling or recognizing knowledge from memory. Remembering is when memory is used to produce definitions, facts, lists, recitations or retrieving material.
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| 2 | UNDERSTANDING
Can you explain ideas or concepts?
Constructing meaning from different types of function be they written or graphic.
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| 3 | APPLYING
Can you use the information in another familiar setting?
Carrying out or using a procedure through executing or implementing. Applying refers to situations where learned material is used through products like models, presentations, interviews and simulations.
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| 4 | ANALYZING
Can you break information into parts to explore understandings and relationships?
Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. Mental actions include differentiating, organizing and attributing as well as being able to distinguish between components.
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| 6 | CREATING
Can you generate new products, ideas or ways of viewing things?
Putting the elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning or producing.
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| 8 | DISCUSSION AND COLLABORATION
Use the area below to discuss how you are implementing these concepts
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