Bloom’s Idea
Teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy to evaluate students’ level of comprehension based on a measurable outcome. The original Taxonomy included 6 levels of expertise ranging from lower order thinking skills to higher order thinking skills. In 2007, Anderson revised these 6 steps and Andrew Churches took the revised 6 steps of Bloom’s and added technologies to evaluate learning when he created Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
One of the levels that Churches developed was “Creating.” This is the highest level of comprehension that a student can be assessed on. One of my favorite lessons required students to create a newscast of a historical event. We used iMovie, but there are many apps that can record and edit videos. The students needed to research an event and write a script. The script was written as if the event was breaking news. The newscasters had to report their understanding of the event including where it took place, who was involved, what occurred, and how it affected the people around them. When I graded the assignments, I also looked at the production of the video. The students had to combine all of these essentials together to create a comprehensive and creative production. My students enjoyed picking their event, choosing their role (newscaster/director/video recorder), and performing their duties to create a quality newscast. After reflecting on the lesson and reviewing the newscasts, I could tell that my students used higher order thinking skills to demonstrate their knowledge.
Source: Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy