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Another framework that I will be discussing is the Blooms’

Taxonomy. It was originally published in 1956 by a team of


cognitive psychologists headed by Benjamin Bloom.
It focused on the Cognitive model, which includes six different
classification levels: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application,
Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. the first three elements—
Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application—represent lower
levels of cognition and learning, while Analysis, Synthesis,
and Evaluation are considered higher-order skills. For this
reason, the taxonomy is often graphically represented as a
pyramid with higher-order cognition at the top.  This framework
was designed for teaching and learning goals that would help
researchers and educators understand the fundamental ways
in which people acquire and develop new knowledge, skills,
and understandings.

In 2001, Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom’s, and


David Krathwohl, a colleague of Bloom released a revised
version of Bloom’s taxonomy. Ìn the revised version, three
categories were renamed and all the categories were
expressed as verbs rather than nouns. Knowledge was
changed
to Remembering, Comprehension became Understanding,
and Synthesis was renamed Creating. In
addition, Creating became the highest level in the classification
system, switching places with Evaluating. The revised version
is now Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing,
Evaluating, and Creating, in that order.

Here is an infographic developed by Kathy Schrock that


shows the relation of SAMR model and Bloom’s Revised
Taxonomy. According to Schrock teachers need to both create
tasks that target the higher-order cognitive skills (which is
Bloom model) as well as design tasks that have a significant
impact on student outcomes (which is the SAMR model).
Schrock believes that educators should be planning for
technology tasks, activities, and assessments that include both
the higher levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the
transformation area of the SAMR model.

Let me end with the quote by George Couros. Technology


will not replace great teachers but technology in the hands
of great teachers can be transformational.

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