What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed. Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. Now, every student’s face was blankly fixated on the ...

Thank you for Sam Wineburg and Jack Schneider’s excellent Commentary piece, “Inverting Bloom’s Taxonomy” (Oct. 7, 2009). While I agree with most of what the authors say, I would ask each of them to ...

We’ve all been told that learning works like climbing a ladder. You start on the bottom rung with “basic” skills, climb upward through progressively “advanced” ones, and eventually reach the top. But ...

Several members of the TEL Team attended a recent Mentimeter webinar workshop. The presenters (from Mentimeter) focused on designing "brain-friendly" questions, and creating questions for different ...