21st Century Skills & 21st Century Learning

Recently, there has been heightened interest in 21st century learning. What is 21st century learning? How to operationalize it? Where are the promising practices?

Bloom's Taxonomy 2.0

From Educational Origami

 

Synopsis:

This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy describes many traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions, but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with Web 2.0 technologies, infowhelm (the exponential growth in information), increasing ubiquitous personal technologies or cloud computing.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy isn't about the tools or technologies rather it is about using these to facilitate learning. Outcomes on rubrics are measured by competence of use and most importantly thequality of the process or product. For example. Bookmarking a resource is of no value if the resource is inappropriate, invalid, out of date or inaccurate.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy lends itself to problem and project based learning where the student must work through the entire process of development and evaluation. The 21st Century Fluency Projects 6D model for Solution Fluency is an excellent example of how to work through the project or problem based learning frame work.

 

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy has been translated into Spanish by Claudia Uribe de Piedrahita, the Director of Eduteka and is available at http://www.eduteka.org/TaxonomiaBloomDigital.php

Key Resources

 

pdf.png bloom's Digital taxonomy v3.01.pdf

pdf.png blooms elluminate.pdf

pdf.png TaxonomiaBloomDigital.pdf

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - Quick Sheets.

These are resources I have created for Presentations. They outline the different taxonomic levels and provide the Digital Taxonomy Verbs with some (this is not exhaustive) possibilities for classroom use.

pdf.png 1 - Remembering.pdf

pdf.png 2 - Understanding.pdf

pdf.png 3 - Applying.pdf

pdf.png 4 - Analysing.pdf

pdf.png 5 - Evaluating.pdf

pdf.png 6 - Creating.pdf

 

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    Blanca Duarte Martini

    Mike,

    I use the digital taxonomy sheets in my PD as a way to help teachers understand how the tools they have access to can help students demonstrate understanding. All the Quick Sheets are valuable. I recommend having them handy in the classroom so students can be reminded about the different ways they can use tools as well. Thanks for sharing this valuable resource!
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      Peter Nicolino, Ed.D

      This is a fantastic representation of the skills needed for technological success.  Teachers can access these resources and apply to their classroom nicely.  Thank you Mike for sharing.