Blooming Our Learning Objectives in a World with Handheld Libraries

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What do students actually need to know when so much can be accessed by the click of a button or flick of a screen? Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives (as revised by Anderson et al., 2001) is a cornerstone of many of my course R&D initiatives. However, I find myself struggling with the first cognitive process dimension of “remember” given the ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and Google. Bring your course objectives, your smartphone, and your imagination and we will explore how to refine those objectives in a world where each student comes equipped with a handheld library.

Author(s):

Kelly Grace    
Georgia State University
United States

Wendy Swenson-Roth    
Georgia State University
United States