Google Translate helps me make sense of the Danish text on my next conference flyer.
Fra overfladelæring til dybdlæring med SOLO-taksonomien : From surface learning to deep learning with SOLO Taxonomy
However, it is the cover art for the Dafolo flyer that captures my attention.
I have never featured with an iceberg before. I have never visited Denmark before.
The iceberg makes a great visual metaphor for surface to deep learning. Deep learning represented by all that hidden freshwater glacial ice (the 90%) floating below the ocean surface. In my workshops I will explain how SOLO Taxonomy can be used to make this deep learning visible and thus accessible to teachers and students.
The Dafolo Danish flyer makes me realise that in Auckland the opportunities for a visual link between surface and deep are more tenuous. An Auckland based conference flyer is much more likely to feature a volcanic cone, a city of sails, or perhaps a pohutukawa tree in full December blossom beside a sandy coastline. I will have to think how a city of boutique volcanoes can be a visual metaphor for deep learning and academic progress in ways that don’t foreshadow a fiery end.
