Comprehending Through Creation, Collaboration and Communication

This bit on the Categories of Knowledge and Skills

The achievement chart identifies four categories of knowledge and skills that are common to both the elementary and secondary panels and to all subject areas and disciplines. The categories, defined by clear criteria, represent four broad areas of knowledge and skills within which the expectations for any given subject/course can be organized. The four categories should be considered as interrelated, reflecting the wholeness and interconnectedness of learning. The categories help teachers to focus not only on students’ acquisition of knowledge but also on their development of the skills of thinking, communication, and application.

The categories of knowledge and skills are as follows:

Knowledge and Understanding: Subject-specific content acquired in each grade/course (knowledge), and the comprehension of its meaning and significance (understanding)

Thinking: The use of critical and creative thinking skills and/or processes

Communication: The conveying of meaning through various forms

Application: The use of knowledge and skills to make connections within and between various contexts

In all subjects and courses, students should be given numerous and varied opportunities to demonstrate the full extent of their achievement of the curriculum expectations (content standards) across all four categories of knowledge and skills.

(From Page 17 Growing Success (Ontario 2010)
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/growSuccess.pdf

Reminded me of a graphic I produced a while ago about the various activities that a digital humanist (or general cultural worker for that matter) engages in: six moves.

At the base is reporting and connected to it are: Assessing, Accessing, Linking, Switching, Building.

And so for day 910
10.06.2009