Cowan Magnet Students,

This is your space!  You will use it to display and show off the skills you have gained in the International Studies class and at school.  Each week you will be responsible to add three comments in three different areas of depth and complexity. 

Use the Depth and Complexity sheet  to help you understand each depth and complexity icon.  Your comments, ideas or questions will be related to the area we will be studying that week.  For example, week one we will study global realities...the issues that we face in our world today and the impact they will have on the future.  Your first week wiki assignment will be to post a comment on the global realities lesson.  Remember to be thoughtful and thorough about your comment.  Ask yourself if you can add more detail, more adjectives or adverbs to make your thought more expressive. 

Start by clicking on Global Realities for week one under the heading Student Pages below.  I will be checking this site each week and posting feedback regarding your comment.  Most of all enjoy it!  This is your own wiki page.  Make it fabulous!

-Ms. Hina

Student Pages

FrontPage Mapping Skills-Week Two Country Study-Week Three Global Realities- Week One SideBar Depth and Complexity

Week One - Global Realities  

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The magnet students have become very familiar with depth and complexity icons and are able to apply them accross subjects throughout the day.  I have provided this wiki for the students to have a continuous place to add their ideas.   The students will be required to add three ideas per week on any one of the above pages.  The concept of depth and complexity comes from differentiated instuction or differentiation.  Below is an excerpt from Sandra Kaplan's model of differentiation giving more detail.

Differentiation has become synonymous with a definition of academic challenge for gifted and other students who are ready for such experiences. Traditionally, the attributes of a differentiated or challenging curriculum have included the introduction of new, different or sophisticated topics of study, with an emphasis on higher-level thinking skills, more difficult work, or changes in the rate of learning.

Three important principles of curriculum differentiation are:

• Differentiation is based on the core or basic curriculum.
• Differentiation is affected by the dimensions of depth, complexity, novelty & acceleration.
• Differentiation modifies what students will know (content), how students will think (critical, creative and problem-solving skills or processes), how students will access and use resources (research skill) and how students will summarize and share their learning (products).

Continue to click on the pages to view the student's ideas

Week One - Global Realities