ICE is an acronym for Ideas, Connections and Extensions
Ideas
What are ideas?
Ideas are the fundamental components of new learning. They provide the basic facts that we need to work with but they are only information.
What do ideas look like?
Ideas might be such things as:
- knowing the various components that go together to make up a VLE
- putting your module contracts onto WebCT
- putting your lectures onto WebCT
Connections
What are connections?
To make connections the learner might:
- make links between discrete pieces of knowledge
- make links between ideas and “real world” experience
- build ideas into a coherent pattern
What do connections look like?
What do connections-level tasks look like?
Extensions
What are extensions?
When making extensions the learner might:
- use their learning in novel ways
- use old definitions and laws to predict new generalizations and conclusions by relating knowledge from several areas
- pose problems and design original activities What do extensions look like?
What do extensions-level tasks look like?