Apr03

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Teach Deep Thinking

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Benjamin Bloom first developed “Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains” in the mid-1950s. His hierarchy of skills acquisition is key to developing authentic objectives for learning–whether the goal is education or business training.

Blooms taxonomy includes these six levels in ascending order.

  • Knowledge–to observe and recall information
  • Comprehension–to actually understand–knowledge
  • Application–to use that knowledge
  • Analysis–to interpret and value the knowledge
  • Synthesis–to integrate, own, and combine ideas
  • Evaluation–to assess, verify, and make choices based on several sources of information, knowledge, and learning

Bloom’s Taxonomy has been studied over three domains: cognitive (intellect/thinking), affective (attitude/feeling), and psychomotor (physical/doing), or if you will, three key areas of personal and interpersonal skills critical to success in education, business, and life in general.

Bloom’s taxonomy is a powerful tool that is too often left in the tool chest.

Imagine consciously using Bloom’s taxonomy to move a company to think more deeply. Imagine a team that learned strategy via Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Imagine what that team could do.

Liz Strauss

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  • http://www.lizstrauss.com/2006/04/10/everyones-business/strategic-thinking-4-analysis/ Liz Strauss . com Strategic Thinking 4: Analysis

    [...] In the imagined scenario, that I’ve been sketching out across the articles: Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Teach Deep Thinking, Strategic 1, Strategic 2, and Strategic 3, the team has applied their shared base of knowledge and comprehension–of a product that has been developed, and discussed via team blogging–to the task of presenting what’s been made to the larger group of the enterprise, in a way that has provided deeper understanding for all members of both groups. [...]

  • http://www.lizstrauss.com/2006/04/18/everyones-business/from-team-blogging-to-knowledge-enterprise/ Liz Strauss . com From Team Blogging to Knowledge Enterprise?

    [...] Throughout Using Bloom’s Taxonomy, Strategic Thinking 1 and the strategic thinking articles that follow them, the people of the imaginary enterprise were constructing meaning — about the product that was discussed on the team blog AND about what people working together toward a common goal do. [...]

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