In order to be successful in the world of their future tomorrows, how do our students of today need to process information?

Looking at the myriad of taxonomy examples, it’s clear that there is a long list of skills that people need to acquire for their future tomorrows, but what often remains neglected is the process by which they acquire those skills. I think this occurs due to the ever-changing Web 2.0 options at our fingertips. There are tons of ways to acquire skills for our adult lives. They are more readily accessible than ever, which you would think helps, but actually overwhelms us

Students of today need to process information for multiple purposes. First, they need to process to understand and remember. These tenets come directly from Bloom’s taxonomy.  We have to comprehend and place information properly before doing anything else. Once acquired, skills and information is analyzed and evaluated for its definition and worth. What is this? How can I use it? If we were making a smoothie, this part of the process would involve pressing the puree button and blending all the acquired elements together. Lastly, skills and information are applied as Bloom would say, and I need to add on that these things are also organized. Our minds must know where things are in memory and also how to categorize them in multi-dimensional ways.

My taxonomy will be graphic in nature (because I am visually minded) and simple. I think Bloom’s terms are still relevant to the digital age, but must be connected to the digital tools that execute them.  Here is an outline of where I am going with my tech-onomy: 

Remember/Understand – Comprehension based on discovery 
Evaluate/Analyze – Interaction combined with information 
Organize/Apply – Execution built on structural wisdom