“Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy in the Saudi EFL Classrooms”

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologists, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom), updated the taxonomy to reflect relevance to 21st century work.With the dramatic changes in society over the last five decades, the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy provides an even more powerful tool to fit today's
teachers' needs for enhancing the critical thinking of thier students.

In our Saudi schools ,Bloom's Texonomy is not  well evident in sitting learning objectives.Teachers tend to use the lower level of that texonomy which is remembering.Bloom's texonomy is necessary for teachers to use it in their classrooms ,it is important that teachers do not just teach lower order thinking skills at the bottom of Blooms Taxonomy such as knowledge and comprehension, but also teach higher order thinking skills at the top of blooms taxonomy such as synthesis and evaluation.
I think Bloom's Texonomy is important for me as a teacher to improve my students' achievment by moving from one level to another for example from understanding to analysing ,it is not necessoray at the same order.When students are using the higher order thinking skills they are more likely to retain information, perform better on standardized tests, and most importantly, achieve the ultimate goal of becoming lifelong learners.