Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Bloom's Taxonomy

It is not unusual to hear teachers dismiss Bloom's taxonomy as ' something we had to learn at teacher's college' and follow this up with why the flavour of the month is a better metacognitive approach to learning.  I have always found Blooms to be a practical and 'easy to understand and implement' approach, and even more so since Andrew Churches has begun sharing his work around Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.  It was interesting to hear how widely accepted and respected his work has become when we were at the ISTE conference too. Having Creating at the top of the Higher Order Thinking chain certainly reflects the work being carried out in the Manaiakalani schools.
This video link tweeted by @jcorippo is not only amusing, but is a good example of Creating in action.

1 comment:

  1. You might enjoy Star Wars and Bloom's Taxonomy
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG52jFCWiac

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