Updated Bloom’s Taxonomy for the Digital Age

Some three years ago I posted a Bloom’s updated digital taxonomy interactive wheel. It gained a lot of traction among the blogosphere back then, but then it was lost in cyberspace due to many glitches on the website. In this post, I am republishing the interactive wheel of Bloom’s digital taxonomy with the overarching knowledge domains. I am also adding another interactive Bloom’s triangle.

Note that the two interactive instances are in flash, and so will not work on mobile phones. I will do my best to republish them in html5. But until then here they are ! Click on the images below to view them.

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