Defining Thinking & Learning

Defining Thinking & Learning

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Whatever the context, learners critique and construct new ways of knowing and being, thinking and doing, alone and with others, in school and out.

Powerful thinking and learning is:

  • Ako:  Where we learn from each other. 
  • Connected:  Knowing who we are and how we connect.
  • Contextualised:  Learning builds on and challenges what is known, leading to the unknown.
  • Environment:  A space where learning is valued, nurtured, and celebrated, where learners feel safe to fail and succeed.  A space where learning processes are visible through different modes of communication.
  • Expectations:  Having a clearly communicated purpose for learning.  Focussing on the value of thinking and learning as outcomes, alongside the completion of work.
  • Feedback/forward:  Learners evaluating work to determine next, or new learning steps.
  • Framework:  Enabling self-regulation, self-belief, and taking responsibility for learning outcomes.  Learners see that outcomes depend on their efforts to generate, relate and/or extend ideas.
  • Language:  Using a common language of learning to communicate and critique thinking.
  • Thinking about thinking:  Self-awareness of knowing how, and when, to use strategies for learning.
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