Bloom's Taxonomy & Telecollaborative Projects

I believe the highest level of Bloom's taxonomy you are referring to is Analysis (even though synthesis and evaluation are up there as well). Analysis is: Distinguishing, classifying, relating, analyzing, and hypothesizing. Telecollaborative projects do all of this in multiple ways. The first is obviously through the information learned during the project. Students are often asked to research something and make a conclusion or a final project. This ensures that they are distinguishing between good and bad sources, sorting through the information and analyzing what is valuable and what is not. They are also relating the topic to their lives through working with their peers to create a good project that reflects their personalities as well as the information researched.

Telecollaborative projects also ensure that students are working together. This is such an important skill to be learned at an early age. This requires students to listen and communicate effectively. As a group they combine their multiple ideas into a final project, they develop and create things as a team. They are then asked to evaluate themselves, their projects, and their peers. This requires them to both judge and justify their work and the work of others. Grading both the final project as a group grade, and grading individuals based on their score and the scores from others ensures learning of the information as well as developing collaborative communication and teamwork skills. It teaches students how to hold themselves and others accountable.  Telecollaborative projects requires students to work on all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy in order to complete the project effectively.

Bloom's Taxonimy

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