Pedagogy Before Technology When I first began my public school teaching career, I was introduced to Bloom’s Taxonomy. It was a way for teachers to understand how to raise their level of instruction, and consequently their students’ learning. The taxonomy was divided into six different domain levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The goal of all teachers was to have their students working at the highest levels possible. While it was understood that certain aspects of education were naturally taught at the knowledge and comprehension levels, it was more desirable to have students working at the levels above those; and, hopefully, reaching the synthesis and evaluation levels as often as possible. In the 1990’s the taxonomy was updated to change the nouns associated with the levels to action verbs to move the education process to a more active stance, rather than just passive acquisition. Knowledge became remember, c
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