by Terry Heick
Flower’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs (with AI-Aware Classroom Examples)
Flower’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs adjust Flower’s cognitive framework for digital learning. Each level– from remembering to creating– couple with deliberate technology actions (consisting of AI) so the focus remains on thinking as opposed to devices.
Bearing in mind
Recall, retrieve, or recognize realities and interpretations.
- Recall: Listing essential terms for a system glossary.
- Find: Find a primary-source quote supporting an insurance claim.
- Bookmark: Save legitimate sources to a common collection.
- Tag: Apply precise keyword phrases to arrange sources.
- Recover: Usage spaced-repetition/flashcards to assess solutions.
- Trigger (recall): Ask an AI to reiterate definitions from course notes, after that confirm with resources.
Comprehending
Explain, sum up, analyze, and contrast ideas.
- Sum up: Create a concise abstract of a podcast episode.
- Paraphrase: Rephrase a thick paragraph to make clear significance.
- Annotate: Include notes that clarify motif and evidence in a shared doc.
- Contrast: Construct a side-by-side chart of 2 policies.
- Explain: Tape-record a brief screencast explaining a procedure.
- Prompt (discuss): Ask an AI to describe a principle at 2 quality degrees; cite-check cases.
Using
Usage knowledge to do tasks, resolve problems, or create artifacts.
- Show: Tape a worked example fixing a square.
- Implement: Run a simulation and report outcomes.
- Prototype: Build a low-fidelity model in Slides or Canva.
- Code: Create a brief manuscript to transform or validate data.
- Apply rubric: Score an example product making use of requirements.
- Fine-tune timely: Iteratively change an AI prompt to satisfy restrictions (target market, length, citations).
Analyzing
Break ideas apart, determine patterns and partnerships, analyze structure.
- Assess: Compare two editorials for bias using a proof checklist.
- Arrange: Create a timeline that divides causes and effects.
- Categorize: Sort cases, proof, and reasoning into categories.
- Envision: Develop graphes that disclose fads in a dataset.
- Trace sources: Verify quotes and acknowledgments back to originals.
- Contrast designs: Assess 2 AI results on accuracy and openness.
Evaluating
Judge high quality, justify decisions, and defend positions making use of criteria.
- Critique: Provide evidence-based comments on a peer draft.
- Validate: Fact-check statistics and cite authoritative resources.
- Moderate: Facilitate a course conversation for importance and respect.
- A/B evaluate: Test two solutions and warrant the stronger choice.
- Red-team: Stress-test an AI-generated plan for risks and errors.
- Show: Compose a procedure note justifying critical options with standards.
Creating
Manufacture ideas to produce initial, deliberate job.
- Design: Plan a product with audience, function, and restraints.
- Compose: Create a podcast/video clarifying a real-world problem.
- Remix ethically: Transform public-domain/CC media with attribution.
- Prototype (hi-fi): Build a sleek artifact and user-test it.
- Chain (AI): Manage multi-step AI jobs (overview → draft → cite-check → alteration) with human oversight.
- Automate: Use simple scripts/AI agents to enhance a workflow; paper constraints.
Often Asked Questions
Exactly how were these verbs chosen?
They mirror usual digital classroom actions mapped to Blossom’s degrees, updated for reputation (platform-agnostic) and current practice (including AI). Each verb includes a brief instance so the cognitive intent is clear.
How should I evaluate these tasks?
Set each verb with requirements that match the level (e.g., evaluation needs proof patterns, not recall) and need trainees to show process– planning notes, timely logs, cite-checks, and revisions.
Bloom, B. S., Engelhart, M. D., Furst, E. J., Hill, W. H., & & Krathwohl, D. R. (1956
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Manual I: Cognitive Domain
New York City: David McKay Firm.
Anderson, L. W., & & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001
A Taxonomy for Learning, Training, and Assessing: A Revision of Flower’s Taxonomy of Educational Goals
New York City: Longman.
Churches, A. (2009 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy (Adaptations stress lining up innovation jobs to cognitive levels as opposed to details tools.).