I've had Bloom's taxonomy on my classroom wall for a while. To be honest, it fills up a display board but I doubt very much that students look at it and I don't refer to it as often as I might - so I decided to give it a make over and make it more relevant to my subject which is Computing/ICT.
I decided that I would associate applications or websites with the different levels of the taxonomy. It was easy to find websites concerned with Knowing - Wikipedia, BBC News, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Huffington Post - the list could go on. Equally, it was easy to find applications that are designed to be used when the user is Creating: Adobe Flash or Photoshop, Scratch from MIT, any programming environment. Again, the list could go on. The levels in between were far harder to fill.
Perhaps this is a reflection of the subject. Some of the thing that we do, particularly in ICT are at a fairly low level and others are at a very high level, with little to bridge the gap. Maybe this is why some people regard ICT as a 'Micky Mouse' subject whereas Computing is often regarded as appealing to a niche and looked on as being inaccessible. Perhaps this stems from the thinking required in these areas. Having said that, some of the applications that I have mentioned as requiring high levels of thinking belong in the ICT domain, but most people will not encounter them.
Anyway, here is the finished product. You could argue whether I have associated the correct applications to the correct level, but for the time being I am happy with it.
I decided that I would associate applications or websites with the different levels of the taxonomy. It was easy to find websites concerned with Knowing - Wikipedia, BBC News, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Huffington Post - the list could go on. Equally, it was easy to find applications that are designed to be used when the user is Creating: Adobe Flash or Photoshop, Scratch from MIT, any programming environment. Again, the list could go on. The levels in between were far harder to fill.
Perhaps this is a reflection of the subject. Some of the thing that we do, particularly in ICT are at a fairly low level and others are at a very high level, with little to bridge the gap. Maybe this is why some people regard ICT as a 'Micky Mouse' subject whereas Computing is often regarded as appealing to a niche and looked on as being inaccessible. Perhaps this stems from the thinking required in these areas. Having said that, some of the applications that I have mentioned as requiring high levels of thinking belong in the ICT domain, but most people will not encounter them.
Anyway, here is the finished product. You could argue whether I have associated the correct applications to the correct level, but for the time being I am happy with it.
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