6 Levels of Thinking Every Student MUST Master

Memorize < Understand < Apply < Analyze < Generalize < Reconceptualize < Unify < Evaluate < Create

Most people make the mistake of seeing the Bloom's taxonomy as a method of studying, it is in a sense, but it is the way you apply it that actually gets you grades. The first thing people need to realize is that the taxonomy levels are not a staging system. If you are at level 6, you use the previous 5 levels at the same time. you don't apply them one at a time.

This video reminded me of a quote by mathematician Stefan Banach where he says: "A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."

I've never heard of Bloom's Taxonomy, but funnily enough, my reading teacher taught us critical thinking in a similar way using who, what, when, where, why, and how. It relates pretty well. What do you think? Remembering Who: Identify key figures. What: Recall specific facts. When: Remember dates and timelines. Where: Recognize locations. Understanding What: Explain ideas or concepts. Why: Clarify reasons or causes. How: Describe processes or mechanisms. Applying How: Use information in new situations. Analyzing Why: Investigate motives or causes. How: Break down information into components and understand their relationships. Evaluating Why: Justify decisions or conclusions. What: Critique or compare different ideas or solutions. Creating How: Formulate new ideas or projects. What: Construct new patterns or structures. Also complete side note. What is your opinion on how an internal monologue affects higher thinking? (I've read some people don't have them?)

The chat gpt prompt regarding the blooms taxonomy and how you can use the software to generate questions for you is phenomenal. I’ve never thought about it that way, and it’s so intuitive.

Level 6 is when you enter your physics class, read the book and start writing your own formulas.

I feel like the “higher levels” are reserved for those who are genuinely interested in and, ideally, PASSIONATE about what they’re learning. That comes from desire.

Maybe I’m wrong but most children think at level six before going to school and being told to regress to the boring first levels. All children are curious and by default learn to solve problems in their own way albeit small problems. Granted that we should always teach from level six even if newbies don’t know anything about the subject. It’s way more stimulating to start creating from the very beginning rather than acquiring new info without knowing what the point of the info is for. That’s why I think school destroys children’s way of thinking instead of teaching them how to think.

One of your best videos. Blooms taxonomy changed my work. Evaluating is Analyzing are THE things that made me increase my writing of papers and finish my master thesis.

I watched a ton of your videos and I can say without a doubt that If I were to ever advice ONLY ONE video about learning, this would be it, you just summarise your 4 years of contents creation into one video. Thanks again for the value and the work.

This was actually really encouraging. I didn’t take to academia at all, and spent too many years in McJobs as a result. When I finally got an opportunity to break into more cerebral work, I had so much catch up on. I was surrounded by top tier graduates who had so much of this drilled into them. But I learned this, the pressure and expectations from leaders made it a necessity. Some would outright ask ‘so what?’, they want recommendations, they need to know you’ve considered and compared results and have solid reasoning behind your proposals. This would have been superhandy ten years ago, but its v interesting now!

When I was on a consulting job in China, we had a lovely young interpreter. After a week of becoming familiar with each other, I asked her what her degree was. She answered that she had a master's degree in chemical engineering, specializing in reaction kinetics, one of the hardest areas in chemical engineering. I then asked her if she had always wanted to work in that field and she said that she had wanted to be a teacher. I then asked her why she had not entered that field. She replied that she had not scored high enough on the tests. What a wonderfully different attitude about the teaching profession compared to America.

Just saw this video and I appreciate it. I graduated high school with a 2.96 GPA, years ago. I started college recently and completed my first year with a 4.06/4.0 GPA taking classes up to Calc 3, Chemistry, and Physics 2. Other students always ask how I do it and I tell them the same thing every time. The method I came up with is pretty simple. 1. I tell everyone to just do practice problems “exam style” and take notes on the practice problems while doing them. Take notes on what you’re confused about, how you think it’s solved, ect. Like a short diary entry just talking about the problem. 2. Then I tell them to take notes on them again when they go back to grade it and see what what’s right or wrong. 3. Finally I tell them to let intuition take the wheel on the rest, while focusing on the first two steps and getting the correct answers “exam style”. By “Exam style” I mean without using ANY external resources to do the practice problems. You can use them when you’re reviewing your answers.

Never seen an educational channel express ideas like this before. I can relate because I am a research student and i went through this different levels of thinking independently starting from my time at high school. This is truly a unique and useful channel. Keep posting ❤️

At French high school there was every Friday a 4 hour test (3pm to 7pm), one week it was Math, he other Physics, but always 5 questions, two exercises and 3 problems, the 3rd problem was always like nothing you've seen before, but that you had enough different things' knowledge that in combination would be the key to solve it.

Mathematicians working casually in level 6 by generating theorems ... I see this is true, many mathematicians thinking for a problem in weeks, months and even years.

Level 7: Invent a useful new language or framework for solving problems.

Please go deeper. I’m so perplexed about studying History. When I understand, I forget facts. When I learn facts, I do not remember what it was about. And in history both are important, esp. remembering facts is so difficult.

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I have experienced level 6 thinking during highschool when I did AP Statistics. The last question (case study) forces you to think outside of your material and create a statistical explanation on why the phenomenon happens using previous knowledge.