What is in a name? New Bloom and the Revised Bloom was the topic of Andrew Churches' article: Bloom Taxonomy, Bloom's Digitally. When you compare the two side by side it is easy to see that they are not dramatically different. The 4 LOTS, Lower Order Thinking Skills, are very similiar. However, the HOTS, Higher Order Thinking Skills, are slightly rearranged. Where does the "revised Bloom's"come from? In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published it in 2001. It now uses verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories. What does this look like in the digital world? You can visit the educational origami blog for more reading. This model from that blog helped me understand it better (I guess I'm still in the LOTS realm :)
I like the fact that examples related to technology are included in this model. However, I was a bit surprised to see filming, blogging and podcasting as examples at the highest level. We all know that there are "LOTS" -pun intended, of YouTube videos that have no merit and never should have been "created". However, I suppose like all projects a rubric or critical analysis of any project will help determine it's true merit.
Very interesting. It's about time someone updated Bloom's model and I was not aware that this had already been done. Thanks for these links Dan. As a longtime "fan" of Bloom's model, I'm definitely going to check out these two pages.
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