I like Bloom's Taxonomy- it makes sense to me. And of course, the challenge is always to move yourself and your students up the pyramid to higher level thinking. As I looked through the digital version, I fell in love all over again. I printed the chart on page 7 and the 2 page intros for each of the levels. I am familiar enough with the concepts that just the charts and specific suggestions are all I need. Though, I really like the specific websites and assignments that are mentioned, as well as the rubrics connected to them. So often I find stuff that gives good general suggestions, but nothing specific enough to get me doing something with it. This article does. But back to the summaries.
With each new category, the author lists several assignments that address that level of thinking- and it got me thinking. For instance, Evaluating. Blogging and commenting on blogs is evaluation. Students look at each other's work, consider it, and comment = evaluation. Then he offers specific "Possible Activities" that fulfills each key term within that level of thinking. I can use this!!! Yes!!!
Again, we are back to that we teachers MUST be teaching in the ways the students are communicating with each other, and learning. Textbook? What's that? And honestly I would much prefer to read, experience and grade/ assess digitized assignments. For many years I have offered website creation as possible ways of fulfilling an assignment, but very few take me up on it. If they and I don't already know web design well, it's not a realistic assignment to give. But blogging is easy. Screencasts are easy. And some of my favorite assignments I have received are Facebook pages of people from Church History.
Yes, they need to be able to write effectively and persuasively. But they also need to be able to communicate in the modern (post-modern??) modes. We need to learn from them and address them where they are. And I love to learn this stuff, too. The best way to learn it is to teach it, right?
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