Blooms Digital Taxonomy Links

I've always had a concern with the revised (Bloom) cognitive domain taxonomy, because it's easy to confuse creativity with creation, the pinnacle of the domain. The links in this article, for example Movie Maker, suggest that making a video is a higher order activity than say evaluating a video for content and/or production values. I would argue that getting a student to make a video to demonstrate their knowledge and skills is going to be application / synthesis at best, while creation would entail coming up with a new way of making videos or producing a video the like of which has not been seen before. There is a temptation to set a creative task and skip that tricky evaluation stuff (which students get really hung up about) and feel that they are working at the highest level of cognition. Having discussed this with colleagues who teach on our PGCE programme, they tend to interpret creation as the creation of new knowledge i.e. Masters / PhD level work, which makes sense if we expect Batchelors students to be able to critically evaluate. Of course we expect level-3 students to be able to evaluate their work (a popular distinction criterion for BTECs) while practical activity e.g. creating a computer program, is usually a pass or at best a merit, which makes sense. I'm very interested to know how other people interpret this taxonomy. (Bloom and Kolb were two theories that really clicked with me immediately when I did my training all those years ago).