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Depth and Complexity Icons
Depth and Complexity Icons
The Depth and Complexity Icons are visual prompts designed to help students go beyond surface level understanding of a concept and enhance their ability to think critically. These critical thinking tools help students dig deeper into a concept (depth) and understand that concept with greater complexity.
The Depth and Complexity Icons are visual prompts designed to help students go beyond surface level understanding of a concept and enhance their ability to think critically. These critical thinking tools help students dig deeper into a concept (depth) and understand that concept with greater complexity.
Content Imperatives
Content Imperatives
These icons focus the investigation of a topic of study from a broad, general area to a more structured and specific one.
These icons focus the investigation of a topic of study from a broad, general area to a more structured and specific one.
Content Imperatives help differentiate the core curriculum so that it is aligned to the needs and abilities of gifted and high-ability students.
Content Imperatives help differentiate the core curriculum so that it is aligned to the needs and abilities of gifted and high-ability students.
The Content Imperative icons represent a set of terms that activate higher levels of knowing. They demand more sophisticated resources of information, more analytical thinking to understand the subject matter, and more complicated products to share what has been learned. They are best used in partnership with Depth & Complexity Icons.
The Content Imperative icons represent a set of terms that activate higher levels of knowing. They demand more sophisticated resources of information, more analytical thinking to understand the subject matter, and more complicated products to share what has been learned. They are best used in partnership with Depth & Complexity Icons.
The Origin icon directs students to think critically about the beginnings, roots, and foundations of a topic. Learners consider the source of an idea or event.
The Paradox icon instructs learners to focus their attention on the contradictions and ironies. Students using this lens of learning will analyze the topic for incongruities and quandaries.
The Convergence icon invites students to think about the intersection of ideas and events and how they are tied together. This lens of learning helps students recognize the factors that occur concurrently and understand the resulting conjunction of ideas.
The Contribution icon asks learners to draw conclusions about the significant parts or results of an idea or event. This lens of learning focuses students’ attention on the components of the topic and its lasting effects.
The Parallel icon asks students to interpret similarities among events, people, or problems. Learners consider how principles correspond and compare and contrast with evidence.
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