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Post by hoonze88 on Jun 15, 2016 14:13:48 GMT
This is the thread for Reading 11 - right side.
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Post by hoonze88 on Jun 15, 2016 14:35:15 GMT
Very interesting read this week. I do not believe Blooms taxonomy was pointed in the wrong direction. I understand the premise of what is being argued; the idea that knowledge is the ultimate goal and it should not be placed on the bottom. Rather, I understand it the way it was taught to me. In order to progress up the pyramid, we must achieve certain milestones. Remembering at the bottom, with Creating at the very top. This article seems to reference the old model of bloom's taxonomy. It has, however, been changed. Knowledge is no longer the bottom of the pyramid, and thus no need for this confusion. Remembering being the base makes perfect sense to me.
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Post by bdelisi on Jun 15, 2016 19:44:41 GMT
As short as reading 11 was, I found it to be an interesting argument. I understand where the author was going with the aspect of the Blooms taxonomy pyramid going in the wrong direct, but the support that they had only surrounded the context of history. What about other areas? It would have helped my understanding to have arguments in different areas as well where the inverted pyramid idea would be true such as math or science.
Also thank you for point out that this article references an old model of the pyramid! I would have never known. Maybe an updated article would be good for us to read.
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Post by carolinebyrnes on Jun 16, 2016 0:39:31 GMT
I believe that Bloom's Taxonomy is pointed in the right direction. I believe that knowledge acts a base for things like comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Without knowledge students may have difficulties engaging in higher order thinking skills.
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Post by Sarah Navarro on Jun 16, 2016 3:24:04 GMT
While I understand where the author was going in this article, I'm not sure if I can say that I fully agree. While it may seem to the author that putting knowledge at the bottom of the pyramid might be categorizing it as "low hanging fruit" and putting evaluation at the top makes it "the terrain of intellectual mountaineers," to me, that's melodramatic and almost pessimistic. Putting knowledge at the bottom of the pyramid does not equate to throwing it to the bottom of the barrel, it is instead acting as a building block for evaluation. You can't just evaluate something you don't know. Instead, you relate it back to other facts and things that you do know. I don't feel that Bloom's Taxonomy is lessening the value of knowledge or insinuating that it is easy to acquire, but actually saying that it is the first step on your way to thinking critically. The base is probably the most important part of the pyramid. Ask a cheerleader.
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