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Bloom's taxonomy is a way of classifying the things we ask students to do in relation to three domains: Cognitive, Affective, and Physical. Just like the food pyramid where a healthy diet consists of foods throughout the pyramid in a reasonable balance, the classification methods within Bloom's taxonomy should be balanced.

One major advantage of using Bloom's taxonomy is that it can help teachers to deepen students' engagement with ideas, which contributes to higher level learning. There is, of course, a strong trend in the field of education towards accountability of students and teachers on standardized tests as a way of ensuring high levels of learning. Bloom's taxonomy could be an alternative to the enormously problematic reliance on standardized tests.

=Nomenclature= Over time, various people have changed Bloom's taxonomy in a number of different ways. One way turned the names of each type of thinking into verbs while another placed Creating at the top of the chart. This unit is based on the idea that there are two basic approaches to thinking represented in Bloom's taxonomy. The lower levels of thinking are primarily receptive in nature because the thinker may not even comprehend the facts that are the basis for thoughts. The higher levels of thinking are active because the thinker is doing things with ideas such as analyzing them or creating something new with the ideas, etc. This unit pulls from information from Bloom's original taxonomy and several variants without differentiating between the original and the adaptations because a major way of engaging students is to provide them opportunities to be active in relation to what they are learning.

=Concepts in Bloom's Taxonomy=

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=Example of a Lesson with Bloom's Taxonomy and Technology= media type="custom" key="21830182" =Your Learning Activity= Choose a topic you might teach. Describe an activity for each level in the cognitive realm (memorization, comprehension, etc.).