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.