John Biggs

Great review for First Steps with SOLO Taxonomy

6 2, 2016

The Danish Library Center (DBC) has written a review of my First Steps with SOLO Taxonomy book – and it’s really good! ”Bogen har relevans for alle undervisere samt kommende undervisere. […] Det er en både interessant, inspirerende og spændende udgivelse med mange gode værktøjer til underviseres pædagogiske værktøjskasse. Der er et stort fokus på […]

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Why learning with SOLO Taxonomy is like licking ice cream

6 30, 2015

View image | gettyimages.com I often describe learning with SOLO as like licking an infinitely tall ice cream cone the gradual and cumulative process of removing melting ice cream dribbles continues around and around and around the cone. In a similar way learning with SOLO never stops when you reach extended abstract for one content […]

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Metrics for the spread of a powerful idea (updated)

6 28, 2015

I came home after working in Christchurch with the Ōtākaro Cluster to find a package on my desk. It contained my author copies of Læringsmål og taksonomiske redskaber. The Danish contribution written by Bodil Nielsen, Annette Hildebrand Jensen, Lene Skovbo Heckmann , Victoria Grønning Iverssøn and Kirsten Frøhlich Well , with other chapters by James […]

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(English) Målstyret undervisning og taksonomier (Goal-oriented Teaching and Taxonomies).

6 11, 2014

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(English) The Invercargill Eye: Simple model supercharges learning

5 22, 2014

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Revisiting analogy.

8 11, 2013

Modelling the process of making an analogy is an on-going challenge for educators. In my previous consultancy I developed a visual process map and self-assessment rubric to help students unpack existing analogies or create their own. It worked in part but I was never terribly happy with it. Oftentimes the output of the activity seemed […]

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