deep learning

Danish design for deep learning

7 19, 2018

Embed from Getty Images How a Danish educator designs for deep understanding during student research in History. The deep understanding is a teaching goal for me its not enough that they know about the war and the war came. They have to understand the consequences and the influences of the historical event on the future. […]

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SOLO Hand Signs

9 21, 2016

SOLO Taxonomy hand signs are a powerfully simple way to watch thinking in action. These spontaneous gestures of thought are a learning strategy that helps students and teachers make sense of learning. In using gesture to represent increasing levels of cognitive complexity surface to deep to conceptual (transfer) outcomes SOLO hand signs have the potential […]

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Essence of wet dog thinking

8 27, 2016

Embed from Getty Images Less is more thinking lies at the heart of a SOLO rubric. When we make the SOLO Taxonomy level of learning outcomes visible using text-based success criteria SOLO differentiated rubrics we show students that learning outcomes are malleable not fixed. They focus on the strategies that might help shift their learning […]

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5 Strategies for Deep Learning

8 21, 2016

Using SOLO Taxonomy as a model for surface and deep learning learning is a sandbox pedagogy. Embed from Getty Images Using SOLO helps create learning environments that are option rich collaborative, adaptable and much like a sandbox always open to the introduction of new possibilities and opportunities for deep learning. The following slides help summarise […]

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