126 Digital Learning Verbs Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

by TeachThought Staff

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs map technology tasks—from blogging and video production to AI prompting—across the familiar cognitive levels of Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. Use this list to align digital activities with clear thinking goals so tech isn’t just busywork, but a driver of purposeful K–20 learning.

These verbs support technology integration, project-based learning, and media-rich assessment. Whether students are curating sources, collaborating in shared docs, producing podcasts, or refining prompts for AI tools, the aim is the same: make the thinking behind the digital work visible and intentional. If you need the non-tech list for traditional planning, open the Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs List for Lesson Planning.

This can lead to cool visuals—like our Bloom’s Taxonomy posters—and also to tools that help design lessons, units, and assessments. Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs work well here.

Digital Bloom’s Taxonomy Planning Verbs

This kind of framework—merging Bloom’s Taxonomy with digital and social tools—can help teachers make more intentional choices about how students engage with content in modern learning environments. In the graphic below, we’ve organized 126 ‘power verbs’ commonly associated with digital learning into the familiar levels of Bloom’s: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. You’ll see verbs like moderate, duplicate, blog, build wikis, and podcast—all examples of how technology can shape and extend student thinking.

It’s important to understand, though, that these categories aren’t rigid. A single verb could arguably appear at multiple levels depending on the context. Blogging, for example, might involve simple recall in one assignment and higher-order synthesis or evaluation in another. That flexibility is part of what makes Bloom’s Taxonomy useful—but also why it’s never a perfect fit.

Ultimately, the value isn’t in getting each verb in exactly the right place. The value is in thinking carefully about the kinds of thinking we’re asking students to do—and how digital tools can deepen or extend that thinking in meaningful ways. Whether or not you use this exact framework, the exercise of connecting cognitive processes to digital tasks is a powerful way to sharpen your planning and better support critical thinking in your classroom.

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Power Verbs

Hopefully you find the graphic useful to explore, discuss, plan, and otherwise participate in Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.

You can also find a classroom-ready version of our Bloom’s Taxonomy Digital Planning Verbs & Cards to shorten prep time and focus on broader lesson and unit planning strategies for your students.

If you have any verbs you’d like to see added to the chart, let us know in the comments below.

Remembering

Copying, Defining, Finding, Locating, Quoting, Listening, Googling, Repeating, Retrieving, Outlining, Highlighting, Memorizing, Prompting (ChatGPT, for example), Searching, Identifying, Selecting, Tabulating, Duplicating, Matching, Bookmarking, Curating, Networking, Bullet-pointing

Understanding

Annotating, Commenting, Journaling, Tagging, Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Categorizing, Associating, Relating, Comparing, Contrasting, Grouping, Interpreting, Inferring, Predicting, Estimating, Gathering, Extending, Exemplifying, Expressing, Engaging, Tweeting

Applying

Demonstrating, Articulate, Reenact, Loading, Choosing, Determining, Displaying, Judging, Executing, Streaming, Implementing, Sketching, Experimenting, Hacking, Interviewing, Painting, Preparing, Playing, Integrating, Presenting, Charting, Revising Search Keywords, Designing (a presentation/Prezi/YouTube channel)

Analyzing

Calculating, Correlating, Deconstructing, Breaking down, Organizing, Structuring, Categorizing, Questioning, Distinguishing, Dividing, Deducing, Appraising, Attributing, Estimating, Explaining, Illustrating, Mind-mapping, Linking, Integrating, Combining, Digitizing, Strategic Hyperlinking, Advertising

Evaluating

Arguing, Debating, Defending, Validating, Criticizing, Editorializing, Reflecting, Reviewing, Commenting, Rating, Scoring, Grading, Measuring, Assessing, Testing, Hypothesizing, Predicting, Detecting, Moderating, Experimenting, Posting, Iterating or Pivoting

Creating

Blogging, Building, Animating, Adapting, Collaborating, Composing, Directing, Streaming, Podcasting, Documenting, Writing, Filming, Programming, Simulating, Role-playing, Solving, Mixing, Facilitating, Managing, Negotiating, Leading, Wiki Building, Remixing

Want a printable visual? Grab the Bloom’s Taxonomy Chart and Poster.