and organize learning objectives. It's most popular version is based on the

cognitive domain and assumes that learning should be structured from easy

to difficult in the following six steps: One: remember. Two: understand. Three: apply.

Four: analyze. Five evaluate. Six: create On the first level we learn to remember.

There is just rote memorization and recollection of facts without much

understanding, for example if we learn about lemons we want to remember the

name, shape, color, size and that they are sour

once we memorise these essentially meaningless facts we move to the second

level of learning. On level two we learn to understand. We begin to decode

information and learn that a lemon is yellow when it's ripe to eat and if we

take a bite that it's really super sour, we also understand that lemons love

sunshine and that they contain lots of vitamin C which is a great natural

antioxidant that keeps us healthy. Now as we really understand a lemon we can work

with it. On the third level we apply what we know. We've understood that while

lemons are sour they are also a great provider of vitamin C. To apply this

knowledge in a meaningful way we could boil a lemon into hot water and add some

honey, then serve this hot lemon to our sick sister who's in need of treatment.

On the 4th level we learn to analyse, this involves examining and breaking

down information into components determining how the parts relate to one

another and finding evidence to support generalisations. We study the lemon flesh,

examine the skin and look at levels of vitamins. We conclude that we can eat

everything inside while the skin tastes bitter and contains traces of toxic

pesticides it ought not to be consumed.

Now we are ready to evaluate, we analyse, critique and compare. To evaluate our

lemon as a good source of vitamins we compare it to other sources such as

oranges and supplements. We look at the following properties: vitamin levels,

affordability, taste and packaging waste. If we evaluate our thoughts critically

and without bias we learn where the lemons score high and where others score

higher. Now after we have learned, understood. applied, analysed and

evaluated, we are ready to create. As we now really understand lemons also in

comparison to similar things we can formulate a plan to create our own

natural lemonate. It's now easy to come up with a cute shop design a good name

and a good slogan: "natural, healthy, yummy"

Bloom's Taxonomy was first created in 1946 by American psychologist Benjamin

Bloom. The revised version from 2001, as just presented, serves as the backbone of

many teaching philosophies in particular those that aim towards teaching specific

skills. Each level usually comes with a clear learning objective that can be

tested. Critics of the taxonomy often questioned the existence of a sequential

hierarchical link between each level. What are your thoughts? Please share them

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