Bloom’s Activity Analysis Tool

Jul 16th, 2009

Pedagogy, Professional Development, Resources, assessment, bloom's digital taxonomy, learning object, technology

I have been working on a simple method of analysing teaching and learning technologies against Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. I have taken the verbs associated with each of the taxonomic levels and arranged them across a sheets and then added a column for the activity components.

The idea is that you take your activity and break it down into the component elements and match these against the different taxonomic levels and the learning actions.

For example if you looked at students constructing a wiki

Editing the wiki is applying
Searching for the information – remembering
Tagging the pages with suitable and detailed keywords and notes is understanding
Validating the information is evaluating
Uploading the resources to the wiki is applying
Collaborating and networking is a higher order skill

and so on

Here is the PDF version of this tool – blooms-activity-analysis

This is a first draft and I would appreciate comments and suggestions.

andrewch posted this entry on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm. Posted in the category Pedagogy, Professional Development, Resources, assessment, bloom's digital taxonomy, learning object, technology You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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5 Responses to “Bloom’s Activity Analysis Tool”

Robin Says:
July 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am

WOW! Now this is a very cool idea! I am planning on using it to validate the use of technology in the classroom. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Jenny Ashby Says:
July 21st, 2009 at 1:35 am

I really like this work. Its a great idea to classify different tasks in ICT. Some activities though could be in many levels as it depends on the output. eg social networking could be in evaluating if there is reflection being shared. Although podcasting is creating the content could be just remembering if there is no value added to the information. ie evaluating
Thanks for this as it has really made me think about the ICT activities in a different light.

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Jennifer Says:
July 21st, 2009 at 4:02 am

This seems like a great tool I can use with course work.

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shellterrell Says:
July 21st, 2009 at 8:17 am

Thank you for sharing! This is really nice tool and I have saved it for future lessons. The tool is easy to read and understand. I think this would be great to use for professional development in which the teacher brings in a lesson and uses the tool to evaluate that lesson. Thanks for sharing!

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