6 Facets of Understanding
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Explain: "provide thorough and justifiable accounts of phenomena, facts, and data" ("Designing Hybrid," 2015)
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Interpret: "tell meaningful stories, offer apt translations, provide a revealing historical or personal dimension to ideas and events; make subjects personal or accessible through images, anecdotes, analogies, and models" ("Designing Hybrid," 2015)
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Apply: "effectively use and adapt what they know in diverse contexts" ("Designing Hybrid," 2015)
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Have Perspective: "see and hear points of view through critical eyes and ears; see the big picture" ("Designing Hybrid," 2015)
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Empathize: "find value in what others might find odd, alien, or implausible; perceive sensitively on the basis of prior indirect experience" ("Designing Hybrid," 2015)
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Have Self-Knowledge: "perceive the personal style, prejudices, projections, and habits of mind that both shape and impede our own understanding; they are aware of what they do not understand and why understanding is so hard" ("Designing Hybrid," 2015)
The illustration below ("Opening Up Summitive Tasks," 2013) provides words that are associated with a specific facet of understanding.
