Bloom taxonomy biography

How to switch to the highest levels of thinking in e-learning? When the professor of Chicago University Benjamin Bloom created his taxonomy in the middle of the General century, he still did not know how educational processes would be built in 50 years and what role smart computing machines would play in this. The classification of the pedagogical goals of the scientist survived under the pressure of time and avalanches of criticism, having made his way into the future, or rather, in our present.

It is now actively used in E-Learning to form students' mental skills that allow you to analyze the acquired knowledge, synthesize new constructions on their basis and argue their point of view. What is Bloom taxonomy? Bloom wanted to help the teachers set educational goals correctly, so that on the basis of them it would be possible to formulate the students and choose tools for evaluation.

In his taxonomy, he divided the educational goals into three spheres: 1 cognitive - “I know” - everything related to the process of gaining knowledge; 2 affective - “I feel” - the formation of an emotional attitude to the phenomena of the world; 3 psychomotor - “I create” - the development of practical skills and the ability to use various tools. Taxonomy is the principle of the location of something in a hierarchical order.

Bloom devoted the greatest attention to his work under the name “taxonomy of educational goals”. Here he allocated six levels of educational goals located in a hierarchical order. Each of them is aimed at the formation of certain thinking skills: at the lower levels there are knowledge, understanding and application; On high - analysis, synthesis and assessment. Visually, these levels can be represented as a pyramid.

Bloom taxonomy The basic principles of the development of thinking of Bloom taxonomy are built on the principle from simple to complex. Therefore, when designing online training, it is important to take into account the sequence of passing the levels of educational goals. The first step you give the students new knowledge - provide Longrid, share the video, show the presentation.

The second step - check how they learned this information, and most importantly - whether they understood it. For this, test tests are used. The third step is more complicated. Sometimes you can rely only on the student’s self -reflection, who applied a new tool and outlined you the difficulties that you encountered personally. If he misunderstood in the second step, he most likely made mistakes on the third, which means that he should go a step back.

In the fourth step, the student already understands not only what needs to be done, but also why it should be so. So, it can take on an independent analysis of the problem and offer a solution for the case using this tool. The fifth step means not only the ability to group facts and summarize the information received, but also the ability to combine ideas so that a new solution appears.

It is impossible to be creative without understanding the issue, that is, having missed the fourth step. Excuses like “I see so ...” without immersion in analysis, is not evidence of the originality of thought. The sixth step means that if all previous levels have been worked out enough, then the student can evaluate the application of new knowledge to his colleague and give an adequate assessment to his own results.

The levels of thinking in the taxonomy of Bloom How to switch to the highest levels of thinking in e-learning? If in the process of online learning the students is only the task of finding any facts on the Internet, then they have extremely few chances of gaining experience in higher order thinking.

We need tasks that require solving complex problems. In the context of such tasks, there is always a multicomponent data. The answers to specially selected questions will help to accelerate climbing the levels. Consider them on the example of the levels of “synthesis” and “evaluation”. Working with questions will help to acquire higher -order thinking skills.

As a result, students will receive additional motivation for further improvement of their mental activity and believe in the words of Aristotle, who called the thinking "the height of bliss, the joy of life and the valid occupation of man." Share Subscribe to the Bitobe Telegram channel become readers and co-authors of cognitive and entertainment content for business leaders and HRD with the ability to discuss like-minded people on relevant topics.