Wednesday 4 June 2014

SOLO (not Hans)

I've been wanting to use SOLO in class for a while since seeing it in action at the Thinking Forward conference last year.

I have used it to help children access higher levels of thinking when using ICT i.e. what makes a great blog comment, what makes a great photo and more recently What makes a great blogger app user.

I started by asking children what they knew about taking great photos.  A lot were in the unistructual thinking stage.  With support could take some great photos and they couldn't explain why.  By the end of our lesson most children had shifted their thinking/learning into relational with some ICT experts moving into extended abstract where they could teach others, explain what made a great photo and why you needed the correct lighting or focus.

Where to next...
I still need to explain to the children what each stage of thinking looks like.  I need to set aside some time for this.

journey using SOLO

evaluative criteria



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