Blooms Digital Taxonomy - Implications for Learning

Blooms traditional taxonomy which was published sometime in the middle of the last century was

revised in 2001 and henceforth was labelled Blooms Revised Taxonomy. This revision is a little bit

different from the original one in that it replaces nouns with verbs and places emphasis on the process

of creating by putting it on the top of the thinking continuum.

Since the emergence of the Revised Taxonomy, several educators have been adding to it expanding thus

its scope and making it even more comprehensible by integrating technology component into it.

Andrew Churches is one of the first guys who was behind the marriage of revised taxonomy and

technology; a marriage which resulted in "digital Blooms Taxonomy".

As Andrew Churches stated, Bloom's digital taxonomy is not about web tools or technology, it is

rather about effective use of technology to facilitate learning. For instance, Andrew added,

"bookmarking a resource is of no value if the resource is inappropriate, invalid, out of date or

inaccurate."