| Word | Description |
| information-full | People who are information-full will do very well on Jeopardy. Someone who is full of information but lacks the ability to make it actionable. Like a computer, this person can take tests very well but is less capable when presented with novel problems or new ideas. Someone who is information-full recalls things strictly through memory but lacks contextual structure or scaffolding that leads to meaningful or deep understanding. They are often easily manipulated because they lack independent or critical thinking skills. Contrast with knowledge-able. |
| Informational Learning | The accumulation of facts. Students gain content knowledge but fail to connect it to real-world experiences in a meaningful way. These facts lose value over time as their validity and relevance change. Contrast with Transformational Learning. |
| Instruction | When an educator tries to give information to a student, they are practicing instruction. Unfortunately, this is not how learning occurs. Rather, students are constantly building knowledge through an active process. |
| Instructionism | stub |
| integrated curriculum | An integrated curriculum contains lessons that help students make connections across curricula. Instead of isolated subject areas, students are encouraged to make connections within a discipline, between fields, or between knowledge and practice. |
| Interdisciplinary Thinking | The ability to transfer learning between disciplines and communicate that learning. As the problems of the 21st Century become more robust, they will be solved by interdisciplinary teams at tables, not loners in labs. One of the 21st Century Thinking™ Skills. |
| internality | of or situated on the inside : the tube had an internal diameter of 1.1 mm. inside the body : internal bleeding. existing or occurring within an organization : an internal telephone system. relating to affairs and activities within a country rather than with other countries; domestic : the government's internal policies | internal flights. experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed : internal feelings. of the inner nature of a thing; intrinsic : he creates a dialogue internal to his work. plural noun ( internals) inner parts or features : all the weapon's internals are well finished and highly polished. DERIVATIVES: internality noun. internally adverb. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in the sense [intrinsic] ): from modern Latin internalis, from Latin internus ‘inward, internal.’ |