Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

My favorite thing about "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy" is that Churches provides rubrics for assessing things that I find difficult to grade. For example, I would have never thought to use a rubric to assess a student's ability to search for information on Google. These types of rubrics are ideal for formative assessment. I do encourage my students to use higher order thinking skills. Although Churches mentions that students may begin their learning anywhere in Bloom's Taxonomy, I typically have my students begin with knowledge and comprehension and work towards evaluating and creating. By providing students with clear learning targets at the beginning of a unit, I allow the students to see that they will eventually use their understanding to evaluate and create. Typically this higher order thinking activity will be the summative assessment. I think it is valuable and motivating for the students to recognize why they need to understand information in order to create a final product. This reading gave me an idea for modifying my poetry project. In the past I have asked students to create their own poetry, but I would like this project to fit into the Bloom's Digital Taxonomy this year. I love the Mixbook idea, and I know my students would enjoy this opportunity for publishing their work as well. I think I may use this for my final project for the class. Using Mixbook would provide more higher order thinking because students would not only create poetry, but also design and and publish this work.