Using Digital Blooms to Develop Learning Objectives

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Hello, and thank you for joining me for using Digital Blooms to develop evaluation theories. By the end of today's tutorial, we will be able to answer the following essential question-- how can I use Digital Blooms to develop objectives?

Let's look at objectives in a technology-rich environment.

When you're writing objectives for technology-rich environment, it's important to consider using Digital Blooms and the verbs associated with them for generating these learning objectives. Digital Blooms is useful because it helps connect the cognitive objectives with appropriate action verbs that reflect the skills that students would have in a 21st century classroom. And these skills are easily connected to technology tools. These tools, in turn, help support the students achievement or application of the skills.

We're going to look really quickly at some of those verbs. On the left-hand side, we have Bloom's original taxonomy. And on the right-hand side, we have Digital Bloom, which is the updated taxonomy. I'm not going to go over each of these levels in depth so feel free to pause the slideshow and take notes.

So we're looking at Digital Blooms and the technology tools associated with them. For remembering, which is the lowest level of Digital Blooms, you might do something like a Google search, for example. For understanding, you might do something like an advanced Google search, where you define your parameters, or you might tag something, or make comments on something.

For apply, you might upload or share a document that you have. And for analyze, this is where you might share media clippings, create a mashing, or provide your classmates with a link to the material that is relevant.

With evaluating, students would be doing things like commenting on blogs, moderating a blog, and collaborating using online tools. And for creating, students might do things like create a podcast, a video cast, or even a wiki.

I've come up with a unit example. This is for a third grade level, and the content area is math-- geometry. The traditional standard that we're looking at is the Common Core State Standard of students will reason with shapes and their attributes. The competency that we want the students to achieve in the long-term and independently is students will divide a whole shape into smaller parts.

So how can I use Digital Blooms to form objectives for my unit? Well, at the lowest level, we have-- remember, students with Google images of geometric shapes to serve as inspiration and guide for dividing shapes into parts. For applying, students will print an inspiration shape and recreate the shape using manipulatives in the classroom. And for creating, students will create an original piece of art using a shape divided into smaller parts and inspired by the original image.

Let's reflect. Are you willing to transition to using objectives based on Bloom's Digital taxonomy? Why or why not?

Today we answered the essential question of how can I use Digital Blooms to develop objectives?

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