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Hey everyone, welcome back. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week. I know I have some space that needs to be filled up from the weeks up and down, so I'll get straight into today's topic today. So today we're gonna be talking about DOK, otherwise known as depth of knowledge. What is DOK? Well, it is the level of understanding required to answer a question or perform an activity.

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So why is the OK important? Well, as the name implies, it gives a doubt if knowledge you may have on an activity or topic. So I'll give you an example. So let's say Jessica and Amari were in class and were asked to make questions for an upcoming biology test and whoever makes the best questions, the questions that they made will be put on the test and they will be given some type of reward for the best question.

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So Jessica's question was what was the Charles evolution theory? And Amari's question says apply the evolution theory and determine how he might have came to the idea of this theory. You might be able to conclude two things from both of those questions. Either Jessica's question is not bad but not necessarily good either or Amari's question acts to give a lot more detail and description and even had to apply the theory.

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or Jessica just didn't really try, and Amari just really wanted to win the reward, so he tried to think of the best question. For the quiz, if you want it to be easy, you would choose Jessica's question, but if you want to really apply that knowledge and use it in sort of real life scenario, you would choose Amari's question. There's different types of levels for DLK.

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Jessica's question was level one, which is recalled recognition. For example, what is and when did? um

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So, after what is and when did, you can fill out, fill in what you would like that to be. So, for what is, what is the evolution theory, you know? Uh, for when did, when did the Holocaust happen, you know what I mean? It's just recalling, you know, all of these events, and it doesn't really give you...

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opportunity I mean you can be descriptive like it really detailed about when it happened and what it is but it doesn't really ask for all of that so you're not really required to use a lot of description and background information to really answer the question it'd just be a lot of jargon so for level two is

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using a skill or a concept. For example, how would you summarize blank and how we're blank alike and different? How would you summarize? Well, that's like summarizing a passage in a book or summarizing a reading passage that you might have on the SAT or something that you might have in Language Arts. I actually might cover an SAT episode later.

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I've been thinking about it, but we'll get back on topic. So for how we're blank, alike, and different, it's just like a Venn diagram, how one bubble, I mean both bubbles on each side are different, and in the middle of both of those bubbles is how they're alike. It's just like that, except you're kind of writing it out instead of making bubbles. That's kind of, that's how I would describe that.

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Level three, re-quote strategic thinking, what evidence supports blank, and how or why does the author blank. So like I said, you know, you can fill in the blank of what you want it to be. If you were to make your own questions, you know, you could put your own blank, you know, if you wanted to make your own questions on quizit, quizlet, or quizzes, you know, you could...

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Put your own blanks so then you could try to get a better understanding of what you want to learn. You know, instead of just trying to figure out what's on the test, when you should probably try to get a better understanding of it. That way you're not just kind of trying to figure out w