Blooms Taxonomy is a great tool for myself and future students to climb the intellectual ladder. Of course, as a student myself I hate questions that force me to take my thinking up a notch , but it definitely taxes the brain which leads to deeper understanding.
When thinking about technology's place in the hierarchy, Andrew Churches' blog addresses this question. The first level, remembering, includes technological activities like, Google searches, social media, and favorites/bookmarks on the web. Next is understanding which includes blogging (what a novel concept!) or subscribing to a website. After remembering and understanding comes applying which could include hacking and uploading/sharing. Fourthly we come to analyzing which could include activities like using Priceline, tagging, or linking. Next we have evaluating which could include activities like commenting on a blog, or posting something to a chat room. Lastly we have creating. Activities here could include wiki-ing and programming.
Most of these do not seem very taxing to me, but maybe if I was not a digital native they would be. Yet within these activities the hierarchy could be used toward the level of one's comments or thought process. Another take could be that these technologies are merely to be taken analogously to the thought process.
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