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Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Blooms Digital Taxonomy
In the 1990s, the taxonomy was updated to use active verbs: remember,
understand, apply, analyze, create, and evaluate. They also switched the placement of
the top two skills — create (formerly synthesis) and evaluate (formerly evaluation),
placing “create” at the top of the pyramid. This recognizes that learning and thinking are
active processes and places creation of new ideas and patterns at the pinnacle of
human thought.
Build thinking skills
Human thinking and learning occurs along a continuum from basic cognitive activities,
also called lower-order thinking skills, to higher-order skills.
Higher-order skills, often called “critical thinking” skills, are more abstract, thought to
require more cognitive processing. They are useful in new and novel situations in which
lower-order skills, such as remembering, might not help. These higher-order thinking
skills include:
Like the original taxonomy, Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy offers lists of related verbs that
instructional designers can use to develop learning objectives. In creating content, they
can progress from lower-order skills like recalling information and defining terms, to
higher-order skills like applying information in new situations, identifying connections
among concepts or ideas, and analyzing and evaluating content to form an opinion or
determine whether information is credible.
The digital taxonomy integrates verbs and tasks used for digital learning and creating,
and includes verbs and suggested activities that pertain to eLearning and other
approaches to online learning and exploring, such as: