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In teaching, we describe Bloom’s taxonomy as “a hierarchical order of cognitive skills, which, in countless other uses, can help teachers teach and students learn.”
Whether you are designing teaching, evaluating assessments, or observing classrooms, Bloom’s dish remains a powerful tool to understand the way of thinking and how we can better support it with intentional course design.
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy By keeping the same level of cognition consistent (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) and building on this framework. By doing so, it can help educators design technically rich courses, not just digitally busy work.
The following image is a visual version of this concept. It maps common digital activities such as blogs, podcasts, bookmarks, tags, networks, and Wiki-Building to Bloom’s level of thinking. This adaptation was originally created by Andrew Churches on the now lost edorigami wikispaces, and it continues to provide a useful way to visualize the changes in cognitive needs across digital tasks.
Looking for practical classroom verbs instead of task types? Explore our companion list of 126 Bloom numeric verbs for technically rich teaching.
Digital Taxonomy with Bloom in Modern Classroom
While Bloom is often used to plan assessments or distinguish teaching, this edition also encourages teachers Assess the cognitive complexity of digital work. Are students searching and repeating, or synthesising, designing and reflecting?
this Communication spectrum To the right of the chart, further highlighting how learners interact with others in the digital space – from messaging and publishing to more nuanced forms of collaboration.
What about AI tools like chatgpt?
AI Tools chatgpt Observation through Bloom’s lens presents new challenges and opportunities. For example, prompt chatgpt Summary of an article Probably belongs to understandin requesting it Arises interview questions Can land Apply even create– How students use students’ output. The key is Task design and how learners are expected to interact with tools.
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This version of Bloom is more than just matching technical tools to “tasks”. Instead, it (hopefully) can help educators see Thinking needs Embedded in digital activities – fostering less popularity in ChatGpt, streaming, social sharing, podcast creation, and more.
Is there a complete list of verbs based on this framework? Check out 126 Bloom’s numeric verbs for technically rich teaching.
Need a traditional version of the lesson plan and evaluation? Please visit Bloom’s categorical verbs for teaching and evaluation.
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