Beyond Bloom's Pyramid: Rethinking Learning
Explore how Bloom's Taxonomy, Marzano's framework, and SOLO Taxonomy reveal different truths about learning progression. Are we teaching students to think or just remember?
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Learning might be more like a web than a ladder. Instead of facts first, then application, what if we started with real problems and let students discover the facts they need?
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