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At the end of the day, teaching is about

l ear n i n g

(http://www.teachthought.com/learning/how-

students-learn/), and learning is about

understanding.

And as technology evolves to empower more

diverse and flexible assessments forms,

constantly improving our sense of what

understanding looks like–during mobile

learning, during project-based learning, and

in a flipped classroom–can not only improve

learning outcomes, but just might be the

secret to providing personalized learning for

every learner.

So with apologies to Harold Bloom (w h o se

w o r k w e c o ver ed r ec en tl y

(h ttp : //w w w .teac h th o u gh t.c o m /l ear n i n g/14-

br i l l i an t-bl o o m s-taxo n o m y-p o ster s-

f o r -teac h er s/)), we have gathered five

alternatives to his legendary, world-beating

taxonomy, from the TeachThought Simple

Taxonomy, to work from Marzano to Fink, to

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