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Business & Education: Some Uncommon Sense About Learning — Part 2
A Surprise Bonus: The Development of Intelligence.
The improved performance that results from both the HOTS program and the Developmental Organization Technology are, by themselves, highly impressive but are not the most startling change that occurs. There is also a documented increase in the level of intelligence in the participants over time as they continue to develop in these models. In the schools, this increased intelligence is in:
• Meta-cognition: Consciously applying strategies to solve problems
• Inference from context: Figuring out unknown words and information from the surrounding context
• Decontextualization: Generalizing ideas from one context to another
• Information synthesis: Combining information from a variety of sources and identifying the key pieces of information needed to solve a problem
What the HOTS Education Process Looks Like
The education model takes ten percent (10%) of the students’ time and involves them in a self-organizing, self-managing process. If you walked into the classroom, you would observe the teacher engaging with an ungraded group of students, or on some occasions individual…
