The ICE Model

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
• being aware of communication technologies such as email, discussion lists and chat rooms

What do ideas-level tasks look like?

Tasks at this level may be:

• sending an email to a group of students
• setting up a discussion board for students to interact
• 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?