Bloom's Taxonomy Revised with New Digital Literacies

This is an article that I found on "Rampentred's Blog" http://rampantred.wordpress.com/multimodal-literacy/. The original Bloom's Taxonomy diagram is what I remember being taught in my undergrad. and I believe it is important to continually research how to connect to the lives of students and one the key ways is through digital technology. The revised Bloom's Taxonomy is difficult to read but some of the verbs used under the key term of "creating" are: programming, animating, filming, etc.

Here is an excerpt from his blog....

Bloom’s Taxonomy is used regularly by many teachers to extend their student’s thinking through engagement in stimulating learning tasks. This diagram of the revised taxonomy from Andrew Churches webpage, identifies key verbs associated with learning at each skill level.

More importantly, Andrew links new technologies with digital literacies in each level of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy. In the diagram below, the blue words represent the new skills required at each level for students to engage in using new digital literacies. He elaborates on how digital literacy can support the development of each of these thinking skills particularly as most of our students encounter these new literacies on a daily basis outside the classroom. This is a valuable guide for teachers in looking at ways to incorporate contemporary literacy practice into classroom teaching.