Week 10

Bloom's Taxonomy

I noticed as I began to understand what Bloom’s Taxonomy actually was, the terms that it classifies thinking according to six cognitive levels of complexity are:

• “Remembering: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
• Understanding: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
• Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing.
• Analyzing: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
• Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
• Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.”

These six levels describe lower level and higher level thinking. The interesting think about it is that the highest level of thinking is the level of “creating” and the lowest it “remembering”. The thing is that integrating technology into a lesson already makes it creative. I think that it makes students rise to a higher level of learning.