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The Original Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy was originally developed in 1956 by educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom. The purpose of the original taxonomy was to classify educational goals for student performance. The first taxonomy intended to focus on three major domains of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. It consisted of six developmental categories which were as follows from lowest order of thinking to the highest: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. -
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Around the year 2001 one of Bloom's students, Lorin Anderson, and his colleagues revised the taxonomy. In the revised taxonomy the six levels of development were changed to action words because thinking requires action. One major difference was the movement of the evaluation level, which prior to the revision was seen as the highest order of thinking. The new levels on the taxonomy were revised to look as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. -
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
In 2007 Andrew Churches refined Bloom's Taxonomy again, but this time it was to reflect technology and 21st century learning. Although Churches did not change the thinking skills on the taxonomy he did add digital verbs to each sub category. Examples of the digital words are programming, filming, reviewing, posting, loading, and many more. All of the words that were added are technology related and are vital to 21st century learners.
