Critical+Thinking+Skills

Higher order thinking represents the higher-level discrete thinking operations originally identified and popularized by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 (e.g., application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation) and then later revised in 2001 by Anderson, et. al (apply, analyze, evaluate, create) (Anderson, Bloom, & Krathwohl, 2001). Classrooms that focus on higher order thinking are more likely to be engaging students in the content, process, and/or product stages of learning using one of more of these complex thinking strategies. Below is a diagram of Digital Blooms Revised Taxonomy which encorporates the integration of technology into Bloom's. The blue verbs indicate the tech integration into Bloom's.

