The document provides examples that demonstrate each level of Bloom's Taxonomy:
1) Remember level examples include a visual dictionary app and math games to recall terms and times tables.
2) Understand level uses Wikipedia to summarize information about topics.
3) Apply level cites using software applications efficiently, like the format painter in Word.
4) Analyze level discusses structuring content in a way that aids comprehension.
5) Evaluate level examines book reviews and discussions on the Shelfari reading site.
6) Create level presents storyboarding as a way to design presentations, software, or business plans sequentially.
1. Demonstrating education technology examples of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Remember: Visual dictionary
The learner identifies an object in their own language
and then retrieves the term for that object in the
language they’re trying to learn, in this case, either
Chinese or English. As the learner becomes more adept
in the language they’re trying to learn, they can enhance
the recall challenge by toggling the UI to be presented
not in their native tongue, but in the one they are
studying.
Note: This image has been altered slightly to make the
2. content more visually concise.
Remember: A Plus Math
I really like this little site I found, so much so that I’m
including it as a second example for this domain. You
can select whether you want to do addition, subtraction,
multiplication, or division, but you don’t get to see the
cool picture behind the answer squares until you get
them all right. These games revolve around a child’s
ability to recall their times tables, along with other basic
mathematics they memorize in grade school.
3. Understand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Wikipedia is a crowd sourced encyclopedia, where
contributors explain most any type of information you
can imagine to the world. There is a strong attempt to
summarize the content, so readers can quickly get the
gist of the content. Of course this frequently implies
personal interpretation, at least so some degree.
Fortunately, this is balanced by the fact that the
information is drawn from such a great number of
diverse authors.
4. Apply
Basically every software around exemplifies this learning
domain. Can you use it well? How fast can you get things
done in a particular software application? Because, very
likely, your job or class performance depends on it. Here
is one of my favorite tricks to get things done a lot faster
in Word: the Format Painter button. Set up the
formatting exactly how you want it for one area of text,
then select that area, click the Format Painter button
and select the text you want to apply that formatting to.
This one little trick will help execute all sorts of changes
in your documents much faster than you might
otherwise.
5. Analyze: Format content for good digestion
Organizing content into a cognitively digestible structure
takes into account learners’ natural hierarchical and
conceptual mental structuring of information. This
demonstrates that the author has taken the time to
apply usability considerations and implemented that
knowledge to ease reading comprehension.
Structuring content in this fashion requires comparing
and integrating content to demonstrate the
relationships of the items being described.
Such an understanding of learning theory can and
should be used to organize almost all cases of text
content presented to readers, including articles, blogs,
help files, etc. Structuring formatting to support
learners’ easy understanding of how important content
is (hierarchy) and how content relates to other content,
contextually (conceptual) exhibits applied awareness of
how people learn.
6. Evaluate: Shelfari
Shelfari is a reading site where people learn about books
they are considering reading and write reviews for those
who might be doing that considering.
A careful reader detects nuances in the author’s
meaning in a book that help that reader form their
hypothesis of what the book is intended to
communicate. A good reviewer will critique the author’s
abilities, checking details in the book to provide
examples to support their perspective on the content.
They judge the book based on their knowledge of other
books they’ve read, especially those in the same genre.
Other readers will reply to that review, possibly
critiquing the reviewer’s evaluation. Very likely, though,
the reviewer will monitor responses to their review and
take the opportunity to respond, expanding the critique
to a larger dialogue were many people supply a
hypothesis, test ideas, and debate the merit of the ideas
presented. The book club discussions of old have moved
online.
7. Create: Storyboard
Storyboarding is a fantastic technique for designing
basically anything sequential. Traditionally, used in the
animation and film industries, it can be successfully
repurposed for presentations, software design, and in
this case, a business plan. Documenting the various
scenes or steps on separate pieces of paper allows you
to move them around and construct your story precisely
as you want to present it. It also helps you plan for
potential issues, noted here by the post-its placed where
the storyboard creator imagined those issue might crop
up.
Overall, storyboarding allows you to think through your
entire idea and then see it as a whole before you
commit to a heavy investment, be it time, money,
human resources, etc., in how you develop your idea, for
example, designing an application in a particular
software. You can work out a lot of the problems with
your idea in the storyboarding stage, and then make
more informed decisions about how you’ll choose to
present it to your audience.