If you’re just asking for answers, learning can’t occur

Byryan

Can we get real? There are a lot of well-intentioned assignments and projects that frankly have very little LEARNING that goes with them. Create a poster of the solar system. The kid spends a lot of time (and money on supplies) with the outcome that they can (hopefully) identify the 7 planets. This is a DOK 1 task… and maybe even DOK 0.

Source: I Learned Nothing, I Just Googled The Parts of the Cell – Teacher Tech

Just regurgitating answers from Google is not learning, but you already knew that.

p.s. DOK stands for Depth of Knowledge

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