Updating Blooms Taxonomy for Technology

In reading this week’s chapters in the book, I read a lot about Blooms Taxonomy. This is a topic I remember learning quite a bit about in my undergraduate work at West Chester University. I also remember completing an in-service at Fallston Middle School that was about using higher level thinking and Blooms Taxonomy in the classroom. In reading this week’s chapters, I decided to further research Blooms Taxonomy. I came across and interesting article about integrating Blooms Taxonomy into the digital world. This article first describes what Blooms Taxonomy is and how it works. It them explains how one of Blooms student’s later revised the taxonomy to make it easier to understand. The author of the article then explains how one could insert digital concepts and skills into the revised taxonomy. For example, under the creating or evaluation skill, besides including: designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising and making, the digital world could add: programming, filming, animating, blogging, video blogging, mixing, remixing, wiki-ing, publishing, video casting, podcasting, and directing/producing. I think this is a smart move to make being the world is transitioning into the digital world in every facet. For instance, this is something our professor could use in our class. We are learning and using technology in our class and she could use this new version of Blooms Technology to figure out if we are using higher level thinking and reasoning. This could even be useful to the everyday teacher. Schools are being encouraged more and more to use technology in the classroom. A teacher could use this digital taxonomy to see if students are learning at higher levels.
On the bottom of this article a few people wrote comments. One spoke about another site that also relates Blooms Taxonomy to technology. This site goes a little more into depth about how one would integrate this idea to Blooms Taxonomy. First, this site lists the definitions of for each level of the technology domain. Next, the article explains what action words go to represent every level. Finally, the article explains each learning objective. This is done by giving an example of the learning objective, listing the taxonomy level, listing the condition, behavior, and criteria.
I feel from reading these two articles that I have a better understanding of Blooms Taxonomy. I also now know how I can update it to apply better to technology in today’s world. Do you think this could aid in your teaching? How would you use it in the classroom? Would you change either technology taxonomy? If yes, what would you change?