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Diving into deeper learning

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Overview:: The complex issues we face today require a key set of problem-solving skills. How can schools best prepare students to be ready to take on these challenges? How can they help ensure students have the "deeper learning" skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and metacognition, as well as have the content knowledge they need? Presented by Marc Chun, Education Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation.
Type of Material:: Reference Material (video resource)
Recommended Uses:: In-class, individual, team, lecture or self-paced.
Technical Requirements:: Internet browser (e.g. IE, chrome, safari, firefox)
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The material discusses problem-solving skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and metacognition. It provides simple everyday life examples for learners to understand the basic concepts of deeper learning.
Target Student Population:: Junior to senior university undergraduate students or postgraduate students.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Logical thinking skills, reasoning skills, computational intelligence.

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Strengths:: The talk is interesting with daily examples on using logical skills to analyse and think deeper.
Concerns:: The content quality can be enhanced if more daily examples can be provided.

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Strengths:: The material is both generic and effective for most general students to acquire the thinking skills such as transforms for deeper learning.
Concerns:: The effectiveness can be enhanced if the speaker may slow down a bit in certain parts of the presentation so as to allow the audience with more time to digest the presented concepts / ideas.

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Strengths:: The material is easy-to-use and generic to use in the beginning of certain courses related to logical thinking, computational intelligence or introductory programming courses.
Concerns:: Usability can be enhanced if more specific examples related to certain disciplines or subject areas can be added into the presentation materials. Effectiveness can be improved by guided discussion after the video.

Other Issues and Comments:: The presentation can be more adaptable to various course teaching if specific examples to certain disciplines such as 'logical thinking' to artificial / computational intelligence can be added.
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