How We Got to Andrew Churches's Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Image from Andrew Churches Bloom’s Taxonomy In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist wrote Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals that described the six categories in the cognitive domain of learning. The cognitive domain categories were ordered from Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation (Highest Order Thinking) Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy However in 2001, Lorin Anderson and David R. Krathwohl published A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives that modified Bloom’s learning taxonomy. The two psychologists used verbs instead of nouns to name the different categories and resequenced them. Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaulating Creating (Highest Order Thinking) Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy The revised taxonomy was then applied to the new behavio...