What is Deep Learning?

Deep learning is typified as an intention to understand and seek meaning, leading students to attempt to relate concepts to existing experience, distinguishing between new ideas and existing knowledge, and critically evaluating and determining key themes and concepts.

“Deep learning is secured when, through personalisation, the conditions of student learning are transformed. An articulate, autonomous but collaborative learner, with high meta-cognitive control and the generic skills of learning,gained through engaging educational experiences with enriched opportunities and challenges, and supported by various people, materials and ICT linked to general well-being but crucially focused on learning, in schools whose culture and structures sustain the continuous co-construction of education through shared leadership.”

Simms, E. Deep Learning – 1, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust 2006

The Deep Learning Gateway

Deep learning consists of three learning gateways:

• Student voice
• Assessment for learning
• Learning to learn

Source: Simms, E. Deep Learning – 1, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust 2006