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A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks


by TeachThought Workers

At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive abilities that may, amongst numerous different makes use of, assist lecturers train and college students study.”

Whether or not you’re designing instruction, evaluating an evaluation, or observing a classroom, Bloom’s stays a strong device for understanding how pondering occurs—and the way we are able to higher assist it by way of intentional lesson design.

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy builds on this framework by aligning those self same cognitive ranges—Keep in mind, Perceive, Apply, Analyze, Consider, and Create—with frequent digital instruments, media, and duties. In doing so, it helps educators design technology-rich classes that promote pondering, not simply digital busywork.

The chart under is a visible model of this idea. It maps frequent digital actions—like running a blog, podcasting, bookmarking, tagging, networking, and wiki-building—to Bloom’s ranges of pondering. Initially created by Andrew Church buildings on the now-defunct edorigami Wikispaces, this adaptation continues to supply a useful approach to visualize how cognitive demand varies throughout digital duties.

On the lookout for sensible classroom verbs as a substitute of process varieties? Discover our companion listing of 126 Bloom’s Digital Verbs For Technology-Rich Teaching.

Utilizing Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy within the Trendy Classroom

Whereas Bloom’s is usually used to plan assessments or differentiate instruction, this model encourages lecturers to additionally consider the cognitive complexity of digital work. Are college students simply looking out and repeating, or are they synthesizing, designing, and reflecting?

The Communication Spectrum on the fitting of the chart additional emphasizes how learners have interaction with others in digital areas—from messaging and posting to extra nuanced types of collaboration.

What About AI Instruments Like ChatGPT?

AI instruments like ChatGPT current new challenges and alternatives when considered by way of Bloom’s lens. For instance, prompting ChatGPT to summarize an article may fall beneath Understanding, whereas asking it to generate interview questions might land in Making use of and even Creating—relying on how the output is utilized by the coed. The hot button is within the design of the duty and the way learners are anticipated to work together with the device.

A Takeaway

This model of Bloom’s isn’t nearly matching tech instruments to ‘duties.’ As a substitute, it (hopefully) helps educators see the pondering calls for embedded in digital actions—making the much less seen abilities in ChatGPT, streaming, social sharing, podcast creation, and extra.

Need a full listing of verbs primarily based on this framework? Take a look at 126 Bloom’s Digital Verbs For Technology-Rich Teaching.

Want a conventional model for lesson planning and evaluation? Go to Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Teaching and Assessment.

TeachThought’s mission is to advertise important pondering and innovation training.

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