Bloom’s taxonomy Tag

03 Jun

Posted at 07:00h in Collegiate, Humanities

Syntopical thinking, also known as synthesis, is the touchstone of a liberal arts education and syntopical reading is the most important type of reading in the Humanities so that we may form the most informed evaluative positions about the works that we explore. In fact, according to Bloom’s taxonomy, synthesis, evaluation and creation are usually considered among the highest level critical thinking skills that we aspire to in education. For more information, please visit Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Levels We recommend students research more on the levels of cognition and notice how analysis, synthesis, evaluation and creation are some of the higher level...

29 Jul

Posted at 17:28h in Collegiate, Humanities, K-12, Training and Lifelong Learning

Great Conversations that Center around Great Ideas Found in Great Works Syntopical thinking, also known as synthesis, is the touchstone of a liberal arts education and syntopical reading is the most important type of reading in the Humanities so that we may form the most informed evaluative positions about the works that we explore. In fact, according to Bloom’s taxonomy, synthesis and evaluation are the highest level critical thinking skills that we aspire to in education. A great tool to assure a syntopical approach in this class is Mortimer Adler’s work The Great Ideas, and his collection of essays which divide Humanities education...