A Bloom’s Model Look @ Twitter & Blogging ;)

Bloom’s taxonomy of learning domains classifies and describes the different methods of learning. It breaks everything up into three categories: cognitive, affective and psychomotor. This was all determined by Bloom around 1956; way before the invention of twitter and blogging. A modern look at twitter and blogging reveals that bloom’s classifications can be applied to these modern methods of communication.

Twitter is a social networking site that allows individuals to post 140 characters of text about their current activities, mood, or places that they are at. It provides a look into the life of someone else as well as allowing you to communicate your own thoughts and actions to the rest of the people that follow you. Twittering utilizes the remembering classification because it involves describing your state of mind, location or activities. Twittering also involves understanding as it is looking at where you are or what you are doing or even how you are doing. Twittering is similar to blogging but limits the amount of detail and creativity you can include because you are limited to 140 characters.

Blogging, while similar to tweeting, provides the possibility for a more elaborate and detailed access to your thoughts and ideas. Blogging involves analyzing because you are capable of joining in discussions about reading other people’s blogs in the comments sections. It also allows you creativity in modifying and designing your blog site and in the ability to write whatever you would like in your blogs. You are essentially serving the purpose of writing, editing and publishing your own written (and sometimes illustrated) work.

Recent technological advances have created the opportunity for others to communicate and learn through mediums such as Twitter.com and blogging. These advances may not have been available during Bloom’s time, but his classifications are still applicable. Twittering relates to both remembering and understanding and blogging relates to both analyzing and creating. They provide information into the thoughts, actions and state of mind of other individuals that are posting and a connection to people that would normally be completely out of reach.