Cognitive Complexity

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Remember

Recognizing

Use Study Stack to study flaschards

Recalling

Use Quizlet to study flashcards

Understand

Interpreting

Use Skype to work collaboratively with
a student from another school

Exemplifying

Use Explain Everything to record an explanation

Classifying

Use Padlet as an online collaborative board for group work

Summarizing

Create a story map on ABC Splash

Inferring

Use Sock Puppets app to describe an experiment

Comparing

Use interactive organizers on ReadWriteThink

Explaining

Create a time line on Tiki-Toki

Apply

Executing

Students create a Prezi showing how they solved a problem

Implementing

Students write music on Garage Band

Analyze

Differentiating

Use online search engines and Microsoft Word to research and

report, with notes, on a topic

Organizing

Use ThinkTree to create a diagram

Attributing

Use Storybird to create a short story

Evaluate

Checking

Use Edmodo to collaborate and address peer claims

Critiquing

Use Polldaddy to host an election or take a vote

Create

Generating

Use DebateGraph to illustrate thinking processes

Planning

Use LuLu to create a book

Producing

Use GarageBand to create new song choices and then Poll Everywhere to encourage voting.

Digital Tools for Learning

Access increases the merging of
the Create Excellence Framework
with the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Yellow sub-topics represent a digital
tool used to enhance level of Bloom's or
the Create Excellence Framework

Knowing

Use the "Scatter, Space, Race Test for a Vocabulary Quiz on Quizlet

Practicing

Create a video presentation on Knovio

Investigating

Use a web-mapping tool, such as Mindomo

Integrating

Use DebateGraph to evaluate a website

Specializing

Do online research and conduct a scientific experiment

Chapter 2: Cognitive Complexity

Technology

Students see technology as their foundation to learning, not as a roadblock to learning

Respect for Students

It's important for teachers to listen to student needs and respect what they know before deciding what we need to teach them

Real-World Applications

Critical Thinking Standards should replace Math, English, Science and Social Studies (M.E.S.S.)