Bloom’s Activity Analysis Tool
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.
14 Comments Already
July 19, 2009 at 11:47 am Permalink
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!
July 21, 2009 at 1:35 am Permalink
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.
July 21, 2009 at 4:02 am Permalink
This seems like a great tool I can use with course work.
July 21, 2009 at 8:17 am Permalink
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!
February 27, 2010 at 7:41 am Permalink
Love this resource! Could it be modified for Google Docs to be able to use to evaluate lessons and maintain a file for each?
February 28, 2010 at 8:03 pm Permalink
I love it too. Thanks for sharing. I think I would like the writing to be the other way up on the top section. You have to twist your head to read down the column, but that’s only my opinion.
March 8, 2010 at 10:14 pm Permalink
Wow! This is very thorough – I can’t wait to apply it.
June 24, 2010 at 5:46 am Permalink
I saved your pdf and look forward to using it this coming school year, will be sure to leave feedback once used.
June 24, 2010 at 7:31 am Permalink
What a fine piece of work using the “new” taxonomy! I like the fact that it can be tailored to any activity, and it seems user-friendly! May I share a copy or is it restricted?
February 26, 2011 at 10:16 am Permalink
This is fantastic!
March 1, 2011 at 2:38 am Permalink
Excellent tool, excellent!
As far as the chart layout…. I think the vertical headings should read from the right insted of the left. The way you have it now is the same way the spines of books are done, which one would assume is the proper way, but it feels strange to me to turn my head to the right to read them…. am I crazy?
The tool itself is wonderful.
July 5, 2012 at 12:48 am Permalink
Andrew, you have great tools…you keep on challenging the teaching professionals to provide the best to their students.
Similarly to Tod, I was also wondering about the layout.
I think many of us are conditioned to turn our head to the left when reading vertical text. It may very well be a tradition set by right-handed people. Would is be possible to have the chart in both versions?
July 18, 2012 at 5:21 am Permalink
Thanks so much for this!!! I have just had a really difficult feed back session after a lesson observation where the observer kept banging on about how my objectives weren’t clear enough… Anyway, I intend to use this and add it to my lesson plans in future!
Thanks again!
December 15, 2012 at 11:44 am Permalink
Thank you very much for the chart.
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