Bloom's stAIrcase

What is Remember?

Remember involves retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory. This process is essential because it provides the building blocks for all higher-order thinking. Without the ability to remember, students cannot understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, or create.

Remembering (in the original Bloom's Taxonomy, this category was called "Knowledge”) requires students to actively retrieve information from memory, whether through recognition or recall.Remember sits at the lower-order thinking skills end of the Cognitive Process Dimension. While sometimes characterized as "basic," remembering is actually a complex cognitive process that involves encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. Expert performance in any domain requires extensive, well-organized knowledge that can be quickly and accurately remembered.

AI Literacy Connection

AI tools, especially large language models, instantly retrieve vast amounts of information. The existence of these kinds of tools disrupts the promotion of recall and retrieval as an educational priority or means of assessment.

In practice, teaching AI literacy through remembering might look like, centering foundational knowledge by identifying core facts and concepts that students should know automatically to think efficiently; teach strategic remembering, by emphasizing what's worth remembering vs. what can be looked up and contexts for each; emphasize recall and retrieve through student review and verification of AI outputs; emphasizing what students need to remember enough to understand AI outputs; and use AI as a study tool, have AI generate flashcards, quizzes, and practice questions to support remembering.