Bloom's Taxonomy

Do you know what High Order Thinking means?

If you're an English teacher or another professional who teaches subjects in English you must read this article.

Higher Order Thinking (HOT) is related to metacognition, in other words, when our students understand what we're teaching and they are conscious about their knowledges HOT appears. As a teachers we have to help our children in order to improve their knowledges with games and useful activities. 

Benjamin Bloom creates in 1948 the Bloom's Taxonomy, this technique represents the meaning of HOT because studies the goals of the activities in class. Bloom's Taxonomy studies the three basic domains which are involved into learning: cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain. Into cognitive domain we found six skills: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Many years later another group of psychologists changed the original Bloom's Taxonomy into a bettered version, which includes another new part of Taxonomy: creation. It's important to evaluate our students' knowledge but also it's fundamental to apply the ability of creating something new about what they've learned.

The last two weeks we had been studying the Bloom's Taxonomy in class when the professor proposed us an activity. It consists on reply some questions related to Bloom's Taxonomy new version, about a recently film or a book what we have read recently or a movie that we have seen. These are my answers:

1. Remembering: Who was the main character? The main character was Snowhite and the seven dwarfs who helped her.
2. Understanding: What is the main idea of the story? The main idea is Snowhite represents youth beauty and kindness, for this her stepmother is jeaolus and tried to kill her with a poisoned apple for became into the most beautiful woman of the kingdom. 
3. Applying: What questions would you ask in an interview with the main character? What's your opinion about your stepmother?, What's your favorite dwarf?, Have you ever been killed with a poisoned apple?
4. Analyzing: How is this story related to your life? I'm a kind and generous person so other people was jealous of me and tried to I feel badly with myself.
5. Evaluating: What choice would you have made if you were in the story? I will create another poisoned apple and bring it to the evil queen.
   
6. Creating: How would you adapt the plot to create a different story? I wouldn't change the plot so I will change the characters and the magical object and adapt the story for nowadays.