Moodle and Blooms Taxonomy

Moodle and Blooms Taxonomy

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Moodle and Blooms Taxonomy

Table of ContentsBlooms Taxonomy............................................................................................3

Blooms Revised Taxonomy..............................................................................5

Blooms Taxonomy Domains, verbs and products............................................6

Blooms Digital Taxonomy as a Word Map........................................................7

Bloom's revised taxonomy and Digital Approaches........................................10

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Moodle..........................................................11

Blooms Digital Taxonomy and Moodle...........................................................12

Example Activities and Moodle Application....................................................12

Example Course:- Geology and Soil Mechanics............................................13

Bibliography....................................................................................................14

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Moodle and Blooms Taxonomy

Blooms Taxonomy

Is a classification of learning objectives used in education.

It is derived from the work of Benjamin Bloom et al. “The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain”

The original books was only intended to focus on the three main domains; the Active, psychomotor and Cognitive domains.

“Within the taxonomy learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels” (Orlich, et al. 2004)

The goal of this approach was to enable educators to create a more holisticform of education.

Affective

“Skills in the affective domain describe the way people react emotionally and their ability to feel another living thing's pain or joy. Affective objectives typically target the awareness and growth in attitudes, emotion, and feelings.” This is outlined in Figure 1.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Benjamin_Bloom

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PsychomotorThis describes the ability to manipulate (by hand) a tool or instrument like a square and compass. They focus on development of behaviour and or skills.

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Moodle and Blooms TaxonomyCognitiveThis revolves around knowledge, comprehension and critical thinking, in which traditional teaching tends to emphasize these skills as seen in Figure 2.

There are six levels to this moving through the lowest order to highest

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Knowledge Exhibit memory of previously-learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers

Comprehension Demonstrative understanding of facts and ideas by organising, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating main ideas

Application Using new knowledge. Solve problems to new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way

Analysis Examine and break information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalisations

Synthesis Compile information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions

Evaluation Present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas or quality of work based on a set of criteria

Krathwohl, D. R, Anderson, L. W. (2001 Fig 2

Moodle and Blooms TaxonomyBlooms Revised Taxonomy

In the mid 1990’s Blooms Original Taxonomy was revised by a former student

of Blooms. The main changes were to change the nouns to verb format and

by slightly rearranging them Figure 3. The new taxonomy reflects a more

accurate and active form of thinking.

Original Blooms Taxonomy New Blooms Taxonomy

Evaluation Creating

Synthesis Evaluating

Analysis Analysing

Application Applying

Comprehension Understanding

Knowledge Remembering

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Examples of the domains, verbs and corresponding products are outlined in Figure 4 this list is comprehensive but by no means complete and could easily be built on.

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Moodle and Blooms TaxonomyBlooms Taxonomy Domains, verbs and products.

Domains Verb Product

Creating Change, combine, invent, compose, create, devise, formulate, hypothesise, predict and improve.

Cartoon, story, book, multimedia, game, poem, theory, concept model, scientific hypothesis, improve on design (SWOT)

Evaluating Appraise, defend, dispute, judge, justify, prioritise, select, support and verify.

Critique, judgement, opinion, recommendation, report, self-evaluation, evaluation product.

Analysing Appraise, compare, contrast, differentiate, distinguish, examine, infer, outline, and sequence

Chart, plan, questionnaire, spreadsheet, summary, survey.

Applying Classify, demonstrate, illustrate, practice, solve, use, execute, implement, edit and apply concept.

Collection, interview, model building, presentation, role playing, scrap book, simulation.

Understanding Discuss, describe, comment, categorise, infer, paraphrase annotate, explain, interpret, and classify.

Peer teaching, show and tell, story, drawing, summary sheet, blog, wiki, discussion activity.

Remembering Define, duplicate, list, name, recall, reproduce, underline, bookmark, locate, highlight, recognise, favour and search.

Definitions, facts, charts, list, recitation, worksheet

Fig. 4

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Blooms Digital Taxonomy as a Word Map. Wordle is a free online program that sorts listed of words with the most common or dominant word being displayed as the largest and the next most common the second largest and so on. This is useful to see which verb is dominate when looking a Blooms domains. The following visually represent this.

Remembering Verbs

Understanding

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Applying

Analysing

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Evaluating

Creating

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Bloom's revised taxonomy and Digital Approaches

This diagram is based on Andrew Churches Blooms revised digital approach, combining the traditional verbs and inserting relevant digital examples, for example creating a written piece of work becomes blogged Fig. 5

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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and Moodle

By combing Blooms taxonomy domains and verbs and their corresponding digital term and then linking with Moodle activities you arrive at the following Blooms and Moodle chart. Fig 6

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Create collaborative Moodle wikis, assignments (upload), mind maps, upload videos(embed into wikis), publish documents, link upload podcast and plan a lesson.

Discussion forums, create collaborative Moodle wikis, create blogs, forums with peer review (grading) and Moodle journal review of own learning,

Survey and choices within Moodle, using Moodle database, Moodle glossary, Moodle wikis, blogs, lessons and assignments (upload, online).

Use of SCORM eg NLN, upload load screen capture (Screenr), upload slideshare, PowerPoint, video, podcast, collaborative wikis and Moodle quiz

Moodle blog, journal, collaborative Moodle wiki, Moodle glossary, Moodle RSS feed (Mashable eg Voicethread)

Moodle glossary, check list using wiki, Moodle quizzes, lessons and complete a search activity within Moodle

Moodle and Blooms Taxonomy

Blooms Digital Taxonomy and Moodle Below is an example how a Moodle course could be created and maintained using Blooms Digital Taxonomy in this case it shows a simple format in that...

Moodle can be used to create, form or facilitate an activity. Moodle can be used to assess students.

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Example Activities and Moodle Application

Activity Moodle Application

Lectures Word document, PDF, Powerpoint, AuthorSTREAM presentation, with audio. Issuu flash animation notes.

Tutorials and Lessons Video screen capture (Screenr, JING,) Video demonstration. Moodle lesson. Handouts (Moodle resources weblink, files, ),flash animations

Discussion Chat, ForumQuestions Moodle quiz, Q & A ForumWriting Assignments Wiki(Graded) Offline or upload

assignment.Definition Moodle glossary, wikiGroup work Forum, wiki, Google document linkContacting students Forum, chat, e-mail, messaging

system, News block.

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Blooms Digital

Taxonomy

Moodle Activity/

Assessment

Moodle and Blooms TaxonomyExample Course:- Geology and Soil Mechanics

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Aims and objectives of the Unit.

Communication, group discussion forums

Weblinks, flash animation introduction to the course.

Lesson plan including aims objective of topic

Class notes as Word, PDF and flash

Assessment, quizzes including multimedia

Moodle and Blooms TaxonomyBibliography

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Benjamin_Bloom

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

References

Krathwohl, D. R, Anderson, L. W. (2001) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

Blooms Revised Taxonomy Digital Approach (Andrew Church)http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+and+ICT+tools

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