Saturday, September 3, 2022

This Old House of Wonders: How Bloom's Bones Support the Acquisition of 21st Century Skills

Bloom's Taxonomy, introduced in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom, has seen some changes. 

It's a model that has morphed from a pyramid into an orange into an upside-down pyramid into cogs revolving in a system of meaning-making in which lower-order skills such as remembering are not looked down on in favor of higher order skills such as creating. 

In addition to changes to its physical form, Bloom's has weathered changes to its content as well. In its initial version, the terms within the pyramid were nouns: knowledge was at the base, then came comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and at the top -- evaluation. In 2001, Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl presented a new version in which verbs replaced nouns, so as to stress the fact that learning is an active rather than passive endeavor. This shift is illustrated below. 

from Leslie Owen Wilson's "The Second Principle" <https://thesecondprinciple.com/essential-teaching-skills/blooms-taxonomy-revised/>

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