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The pyramid to the right is a representation of the the heirarchy of Lower Order Thinking Skills on the bottom (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) on the top. These skills can be thought of as steps. One must complete/master each step/skill to get to the next one. Mirrored below, the skills are listed as:   

Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Analyzing

Evaluating

Creating 

Benjamin Bloom was an American education psychologist who developed a Taxonomy of Learning Objectives while working at the University of Chicago. His Taxonomy of Learning Objectives has since become a key tool in structuring and understanding the learning process. In today's digital age, the same principles developed by Bloom have been applied to the Internet and web-based tools. This application was the birth of Web 2.0 and Bloom's Digital Taxonomy explored here. 

For more details on the introduction and history of this concept, click here.  

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The information used in this LibGuide was collected from the information and resources provided by educator Andrew Churches on this website as well as the websites in the Helpful Links box to the left.