Bloom's Taxonomy and the Online Environment

Transfer of the Casey articles to an online environment

I think a lot of the activities that were included in the Casey lesson plan were great. I thought even the activities that fit into the lower levels of Bloom’s taxonomy required a lot of higher level thinking that I thought they didn’t get credit for, like coming up with a definition of words that are hard to define.

As far as transferring the activities to an online environment, I thought it many would easily transfer. The following are some ways in which I thought this could be accomplished:
Discussion board postings:
➢ Find examples of redefined vocabulary -posting on the discussion board
➢ Consider the idea
➢ Research to explore how standards have changed
➢ Analyze these scenarios.

Group projects
➢ Discuss research on the changes in the news and the role of the journalist; post your group’s response
➢ Create guidelines for some of the vocabulary

Drop box
➢ Understand the 1st Ammendment
➢ Understand the laws of libel and their application
➢ Explore sensationalistic v newsworthy stories
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Asynchronous, synchronous
➢ Have all members of the class watch one of the movies. Have them meet in an IM area in groups to discuss the movie.
➢ Recognize propaganda- meet in IM area as a group to develop guidelines for recognizing propaganda
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Some of the activities could be rolled into one. For example, groups could discuss and post their response to the research on changes in the news and the role of the journalist. Then, when the discussion starts to stagnate, they could be told to continue the discussions by talking about how the standards have changed. The same could happen with the scenarios Casey provided for analysis. At some point during the discussion, some of the questions she asked could be thrown in like, “Does it make a difference that the person was a police officer?”

Holly Jeffrey
Assessment taxonomy table template
Review the course objectives and activities from the Casey course. Then decide which objectives and activities belong in which ‘Bloom’ category. This type of analysis will help you, not only develop your course assessment plans, but will also help you decide which assessment activities are most valuable.

This website provides a simple explanation of Bloom’s categories:
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html