IT for Higher

Lesson 7IT for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity

In the traditional information absorption model of teaching, the teacher organizes and presents information to student-learners. He may use a variety of teaching resources to support the lesson such as:

Chalkboard

Videotape

Newspaper

Magazine

Photos

The presentation is followed by discussion and the giving of

assignment. This teaching approach has been proven successful for achieving learning outcomes

following the lower end of Bloom’s taxonomy:

Knowledge

ComprehensionApplication

but a new challenge has risen for today’s learners and this is not simply to achieve learning objective but to encourage the development of student who can do more than receive, recall, recite and apply the

knowledge they have acquired.

today, student are expected to be not only cognitive, but also flexible, analytical and creative.

Higher Level Learning Outcomes

To define the higher level thinking skills and creativity, we may adopt a framework that is a helpful synthesis of many models and definitions

on the subject matter.

THINKING SKILLS FRAMEWORK

Complex Thinking Skills Sub-skills

Focusing

Defining the problem, goal/objective-setting, brainstorming

Information gathering Selection, recording of data of information

Remembering Associating, relating new data with old

Analyzing Identifying idea constructs, patterns

Generating Deducing, inducting, elaborating

Organizing Classifying, relating

Imagining Visualizing, predicting

Designing Planning, formulating

Integration Summarizing, abstracting

Evaluating Setting criteria, testing idea, verifying outcomes, revising

The Upgraded Project Method

Given these complex thinking skills, the modern day teacher can now be guided on his goal to help student achieve higher level thinking skills and creativity beyond the ordinary benchmark of the student’s passing, even excelling achievements tests.

The Project Method for Higher Learning Outcomes

• It consists in having the students work on projects with depth, complexity, duration and relevance to the real world.

• This new method involves students in the active creation of information, such that there is sustained reflective thinking on topics that have a real-world quality to them.

• There is a tighter link between the use of projects for simply coming up with products to having the students undergo the process of complex/higher thinking framework of the constructivist paradigm.

Under this framework, it is the students, not the teacher, make decisions about what to put into the project, how to organize information, how to package the outcomes for presentation, and the like.

Meanwhile, the teacher, without staying away from the project endeavor, guides and facilitates the learning process.

The ProcessThe process of project implementation takes the students to the steps, efforts, and experiences in project completion. Thus we have to bear this in mind:

THE PROCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OUTPUT.

THE PROCESS REFERS TO THE

THINKING PROCESS

PSYCHOMOTOR PROCESS

AFFECTIVE PROCESS

The product is the result of this all-important process. The product can be…

SUMMARY

POSTER

TERM PAPER

• ESSAY

IT BASED PRODUCT

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION

 Examples of IT-Based Projects

Resource – Based

ProjectsSimple Creation

GUIDED HYPER MEDIA PROJECTS WEB-BASED

PROJECTS

Thank You :D

Prepared by:

>JAMAINA FREJAS