Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom’s taxonomy was invented by Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl in 1956. The original structure consisted of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. This original framework was applied to K-12 teachers and college instructors in their teaching (Armstrong, 2010).

In 2001, a group of psychologists revised original frameworks to be more objective and started to use verbs for describing key structures to understand clearly for learners and teachers.

Zoom

Teamwork is often challenging in especially new environments, new colleagues and/or limited communication.

From this observation point, we also found that similar things are happening in our societies such as schools, etc. In fact, the process of analysis should have taken more time and wisely as one participant already found that activities mean a lot.

Zoom activity was conducted after introducing the framework of Bloom's Taxonomy as the activity is based on his framework.

In this activity, we picked four observers who will monitor the others. "This session was pretty challenging but at the same time, it was useful as the theory of Bloom’s Taxonomy can be easily adapted to your life" (Nicola from Italy).

"I learned how fake news is formed and how we have acted in my life, for example, my school life (...) I am studying teaching school for now, so it was useful knowledge for these activities" (Sadullah from Turkey).

Cognitive Biases & Fallacies

This was the first group presentation during the project. It was interesting and creative for most of the participants. All teams worked together and created a poster representing an example of biases or a fallacies. They selected one or more of the four cards that they received and created a poster explaining their cards.

The main idea of this activity was to understand what cognitive biases and fallacies are and how we meet them in our everyday life.

One team combined two of them, confirmation bias (favourite things that confirm our existing beliefs) and strawman fallacy (misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack) through an example of the climate crisis.

<Everyone contributed to the activity. More or less, some were the artists while others wrote the dialogues and others did the presentation. The most important thing is that it was the first team presentation in this project. The timing was really great and the team building helped us feel comfortable and work all together as a team= (Venla from Finland).

<I enjoyed the whole process while discussing the topic. There was a main idea and everyone added something. The final presentation was very interesting and it was really connected to what we experience in our daily life. In the end, the poster was very representative and quite funny. We enjoyed it a lot!= (Selim from Turkey).