Bloom's Taxonomy. It's been around for nearly 60 years, and it is still as influential as ever. But how do we take this educational tool and update it so that we can use it with technology? By sheer coincidence, the article I read ("Kinetic Connections: Bloom's Taxonomy in Action") addressed just that: How can we use the web to push our students to higher levels of thinking?
Like the article said, many see the internet as level one: pure information, a library of facts useless in the hands of an individual without critical thinking skills. But this is not as true as some might think. The article listed several websites whose sole purpose is to force students to think at higher levels.
Also, Bloom's synthesis level of knowledge begs to use technology. It asks students to take the information they've learned and integrate it into something new. Students could use cameras, video, the web, any number of things to create ideas to share with the world. Sites like storybird.com invite students to take their knowledge of story parts and then write their own story. This is Bloom's 5th level.
I can imagine a culminating senior project in which students make a film evaluating (Bloom's highest level of thinking) some historical event. The film would not have to be entirely accurate, because it would have to reflect the student's opinion of the event he or she has researched.
I can see no end to how you could integrate Bloom's Taxonomy with technology. Do you have ideas to share?
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