Bloom

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Blooms Taxonomy
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Exercise your brain!

• Your brain, like your muscles, needs to be
  exercised. You do this by thinking harder, and at
  higher levels.

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Levels of Thinking

• Benjamin Bloom, a psychologist, identified the
  kinds of thinking humans do. He created a
  TAXONOMY (a classification) of the different
  levels of thinking our brains can engage in.

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The Taxonomy

• Blooms Taxonomy is HIERARCHICAL (ranked),
  starting with basic thinking and going up to
  advanced critical thinking. But its important to
  know that you cant get to the higher levels
  without the lower levels supporting you. Think of
  it as a ladder, or as steps.

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Knowledge

• The first level deals with just the facts, maam.
  Knowledge is what you know.

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Comprehension

• The next level deals with understanding what you
  know.

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Application

• Application is being able to apply what you know.

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Analysis

• Analysis is taking what you know, understand, and
  can use, and breaking it down into parts. When
  you analyze something, youre not only figuring
  out how to use it, youre figuring out the best
  way to use it.

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Synthesis

• Synthesis is creating something that wasnt there
  before. It means having an idea that no one else
  has had.

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Evaluation

• Evaluation is judging something, criticizing
  something or reviewing something according to
  some set of criteria.
• This is the highest level of Blooms Taxonomy,
  because you cant get here without all of the
  other levels supporting you.

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For the purposes of this class, were going to
divide the taxonomy into 3 levels
1. Facts and Evidence (Knowledge, Comprehension)
2. Interpretation and Inference (Analysis)
3. Evaluation (Synthesis and Evaluation)
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Facts and Evidence

• Are what you can see in the text what you KNOW,
  what you can actually, physically, put your
  finger on.

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Interpretation and Inference

• Is your analysis of the facts you have to use
  your brain, and what the text says.

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Evaluation

• Is what it all means its your thesis statement,
  how the text applies to the world, what you think
  a story or book is really about.

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So, to summarize

• There are different levels of critical thinking.
• Some levels are higher on the taxonomy than
  others.
• And we use all of these levels when we read and
  write.

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The whole point is

• To give your brain a workout,

and to make you a stronger thinker (and writer
and reader)
so that your brain can grow and look like this
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and not like this
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