K-12 Curriculum Development

Michael Fisher maintains a website titled DigiGogy: A New Digital Pedagogy.
On the site, Fisher added Digital Bloom's, a visual representation that allows teachers and administrators to see how Web 2.0 tools can be used to support teaching and learning.  Fisher created this visual as a discussion starter and as a way for educators to relate the new tools to a taxonomy that educators have become familiar with over the past fifty years.  As I continue to learn about Web 2.0 tools, this visual will provide me with the opportunity to reflect on how each tool can empower students.

Bloom's Taxonomy was introduced to the world in a book titled, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain (1956).  Bloom himself considered the Handbook, "one of the most widely cited yet least read books in American education."

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For an overview of Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) and the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (2001), visit the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching.

If you are not familar with Web 2.0 Tools and strategies for using Web 2.0 Tools in the classroom, visit Web 2.0 & Why We Should Change (David Warlick, Feb. 8, 2008).