📝🔬 What does it mean to “master” the skill of creatively manipulating understandings in novel situations?
New on our team blog, some working thoughts on the intersection of mastery learning and creative tasks:
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This is thought provoking- thanks for writing it up Andy! Do you think that creative tasks have clear standards? If so, that might hint as to what mastery looks like. If not, can we ever truly master them?
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Sometimes! For instance, CCSS.MP3 asks students to create viable arguments. But some of these tasks are more about taking an existing standard (knowledge of triangle properties) and using it with more depth, e.g. in an unfamiliar context. What do you think?