Blooms digital taxonomy

Blooms Digital Taxonomy

Understand

Remember

Apply

Briston Ramby

Blooms digital taxonomy is a tool that can be used to help teachers classify different levels of thinking while also adding new verbs that work with technology. Which then can help create learning objectives for a course helping teaching teach effectivly and students learn efficiently using a higher level of thinking.

Create

Analyze

Evaluate

Analyze

Verbs

A student should be a able to break down and draw connections among the material to find an overall purpose or structure.

1. Categorizing
2. Breaking Down
3. Correlating
4. Deconstructing
5. Strategic Hyperlinking
6. Distinguishing
7. Illustrating
8. Seperating
9. Mashing
10. Linking
11. Inferring
12. Structuring

Example

Students will CATORGIZE their resources by the most credible to least credible for their upcoming essay.

Apply

Verbs

Applying in Blooms taxonomy is being able to use facts, concepts, and ideas in new situations.

1. Displaying
2. Revising Search Keywords
3. Executing
4. Examining
5. Implementing
6. Sketching
7. Experimenting
8. Hacking
9. Interviewing
10. Playing
11. Uploading
12. Reenact

Example

Students will SKETCH out how sunlight becomes an energy source for plants using the video they watched?

Evaluate

Verbs

1. Predicting
2. Rating
3. Reflecting
4. Reviewing
5. Debating
6. Grading
7. Testing
8. Judging
9. Commenting
10. Rating
11. Persuading
12. Assesing

Evaluating in Blooms is being able to make judgement based on standards or criteria, using methods such as critiquing and checking.

Example

Students will COMMENT on other students discusion post and discuss their thoughts on how they came to their answer.

Understand

Verbs

Understanding in Blooms taxonomy is being able to explain ideas and concepts.

1. Relating
2. Categorizing
3. Summarizing
4. Comparing
5. Contrasting
6. Commenting
7. Journaling
8. Interpreting
9. Grouping
10. Gathering
11. Estimating
12. Subscribing

Example

Students should be able to GATHER information on google to find how many planets are in the solar system.

Remember

Some Verbs

1. Copying
2. Defining
3. Finding
4. Locating
5. Quoting
6. Listening
7. Googling
8. Repeating
9. Retrieving
10. Matching
11. Curating & Bookmarking
12. Bullet-pointing

Rememebering in blooms taxonomy is about being able to recall facts and basic concepts. When intergrating technology students may learn the basics such as seaching, bullet-pointing, and even googling. This would be considerd the first step in blooms.

Example

Students should be able to DEFINE photosynthesis.

Create

Verbs

1. Filming
2. Programming
3. Simulating
4. Designing
5. Building
6. Publishing
7. Adapting
8. Modifying
9. Writing
10. Collaborating
11. Planning
12. Composing

Students at the final level should be able to use what they learned and reorganize or produce new work in their own way.

Example

Student should be able to DESIGN a a infographic by using tools that they have learned.

Works cited

• Staff, TeachThought, and About The Author TeachThought Staff TeachThought is an organization dedicated to innovation in education through the growth of outstanding teachers. “Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs for 21st Century Students.” TeachThought, 8 Nov. 2023, www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/blooms-digital-taxonomy-verbs/.
• “What Is Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy?” YouTube, 12 July 2016, youtu.be/fqgTBwElPzU.