Crystal Machado from the Department of Professional Studies in Education and Yao Fu from the University of Wisconsin presented a paper titled “AI and Bloom’s Taxonomy: Scaffolding Pre-service and Inservice Teachers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence for Learning and Teaching” at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, on March 20, 2025.
Abstract
Teacher educators (TEs), in-service teachers (ISTs), and pre-service teachers (PSTs) have been using Bloom’s Taxonomy as an integral component of instructional design for over 70 years. Scholars have begun to question the relevance of this taxonomy in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This paper describes how education professors at two universities have leveraged AI for learning and teaching. The professors describe how they engage PST and IST in prompt engineering at different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. They share assignments that require PSTs and ISTs to collaborate with AI-powered innovations. The practical examples are illustrative examples for TEs keen on scaffolding PSTs’ and ISTs’ use of AI for learning and teaching.