Bloom’s taxonomy

Today I learned about Bloom’s taxonomy as presented in How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation:

Remember
Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long‐term memory.
Understand
Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
Apply
Carrying out or using a procedure for executing or implementing.
Analyze
Breaking material into constituent parts and determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
Evaluate
Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
Create
Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.

The SQ3R method

In How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation I learned about the SQ3R method, wherein “American educator Francis P. Robinson developed a method meant to help students really get the most comprehension from the texts they’re assigned—and, ergo, the subject they’re studying. Robinson sought a way to make reading more active, helping readers by creating dynamic engagement with books so the information stuck in their minds.”:

  • survey
  • question
  • read
  • recite
  • review

Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

So I’m reading Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. For my later reference, the hats are:

WHITE HAT
neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures
RED HAT
the emotional view
YELLOW HAT
sunny and positive
BLACK HAT
careful and cautious
GREEN HAT
associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas
BLUE HAT
cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat