ipad+visible+thinking

What is visible thinking? What does it have to do with iPads? Visible thinking is encouraging high levels of cognitive response in classroom activities and projects. It is about formative assessment based on inquiry and questioning. It is about developing a classroom culture where learners are responsible for their own thinking and learning. Using iPads allows for thinking to be visible (not the same as visual) in many different ways. The process can be shown as well as or often instead of the product. Learners are encouraged to share both product and process with a wider, authentic audience.

Image by Kevin Honeycut

Image by Tracy Clark SAMR - Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition The Padagogy Wheel (based on SAMR and the revised Blooms Taxonomy) TPACK - Technological, Pedagogical, Content, Knowledge Visible Thinking - Thinking Routines, Ron Ritchhart



Image below showing the basics of SAMR and TPCK



**Examples** "An ongoing theme in my classroom is to make your learning visible. My students are in grade 1 and 2, and they already know that they have a huge audience on their personal blogs. We talk about who and why they are creating videos about the content we are learning in class. My students want to teach other students and peers about what they are learning about. It is also a great assessment piece for me, however, they don't see me as their audience anymore. My students now feel a sense of accomplishment and purpose for what they are doing. I'm sure they always did, however not to this magnitude." From My top picks for content creation iPad apps

**Activity** Question: How can we create learning opportunities that encourage high levels of cognitive response? Task: media type="custom" key="23633452"
 * Find a picture of student.
 * Brainstorm with a partner: What does a high school graduate look like?
 * Choose apps that will best demonstrate your thinking. Create.
 * Post your creation to this Padlet - Beacon Visible

**Resources** 10 secrets to unlocking the potential of the iPad:
 * 3. Insist on transfer.** If students aren’t demonstrating an ability to apply thinking in new and unfamiliar circumstances, the iPad will “engage” and flaunt its magic more than it will promote learning. [|**Insist on transfer.**]
 * 4. Make student thinking visible.** The iPad can publish—so publish! Allow learners to share thinking not just with you, mom, and dad, but the local university, the group on linkedin dedicated to video game development, or organization in Calcutta that collects old technology pieces for use in tech-barren classrooms.
 * 5. Publish the process as well as the product.** The process of learning might mean more than the end-product itself.

27 Ways to publish student thinking SAMR and TPCK - the Basics (Maine Learning Technology Initiative)