Bloom's Taxonomy

 Bloom (1956)  proposed that learning fitted into one of three psychological domains:

Ø  the Cognitive domain – processing information, knowledge and mental skills

Ø  the Affective domain – Attitudes and feelings  

Ø  the Psychomotor domain – manipulative, manual or physical skills

In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl, revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Each of the categories or taxonomic elements has a number of key verbs associated with it
Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS)

Ø  Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding

Ø  Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying

Ø  Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

Ø  Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating

Ø  Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring

Ø  Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

This revised taxonomy does not take into account the emerging use of Information and Communication Technologies.

Blooms as a learning process.

Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it
Before we can apply the concept we must understand it
Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it
Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it
Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluated.

Information retrieved from http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+-+Introduction

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Summary Map and to view video with Andrew Churches click here.