Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of the different objectives and skills that educators set for their students (learning objectives). The taxonomy was proposed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago.
Blog post #9: What is a ‘learning objective’ anyway?
Since one of the pieces of feedback for my pitch was to include learning objectives in the project proposal to make the objective of Graffiti-ED more clear to the teachers, I had to make sure I understood what a learning objective actually is. I went through a bunch of different resources online. This article from the University of Arkansas made it really clear what these learning objectives actually are and how to write them effectively.
I went with learning outcomes such as:
“Apply: Students will be able to apply basic concepts they learned in class to solve the problems the Graffiti-ED owl throws at them.
Analyze: Students will be able to analyze the clues for the locations of the new owls, after finding and completing the task of the owl at hand.
Evaluate: In the lectures after the scavenger hunt, students will be able to evaluate the information the owls presented to them and discuss it.”
In later stages of the Graffiti-ED project, with the support of the Estonian Teacher’s Union, I’d hope to make these learning objectives even more varied, clearer and attractive to the schools, but for now I’m happy with how they turned out.
