Bloom's Goes Digital

Bloom's Taxonomy, developed in the mid twentieth century, suggested that learning can be modelled according to 6 'levels', starting with lower order thinking skills and building to higher order thinking skills. In the original Taxonomy, the lowest thinking skill was remembering, followed by understanding, application, analysis, synthesis and, finally, evaluation. For a deeper look at the original taxonomy, see this spotlight paper from CIE. 

There have been several revisions since then but, in 2008, Bloom's Extended Digital Taxonomy was published (Churches, 2008) which began to reflect the increasingly digital nature of learning, and how this needed to be mirrored in a revision of the original taxonomy.  

Below is a diagram based on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, modelled on the work of Andrew Churches. In the first column, notice how the levels have been renamed to reflect more up-to-date practice and we also have a seventh level - Sharing. The second column presents a list of Action Verbs for each level so we can begin to think about how we can map the taxonomy against our own practice. The final column, Digital Activities, outlines some example digital activities for each of the levels. 

References

Churches, A., 2008. Bloom's digital taxonomy.