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Higher Order Thinking Skills Through IT (Niña)
Higher Order Thinking Skills Through IT (Niña)
Higher Order Thinking Skills Through IT (Niña)
In this lesson, we shall discuss four types of IT-based projects which can effectively be used in
order to engage students in activities of a higher plane of thinking. To be noted id the fact that these
projects differ in the specific process and skills employed, also in the ultimate activity or platform used
to communicate completed products to others.
It is to be understood that these projects do not address all of the thinking skills shown previously
in the Thinking Skills Framework. But these projects represent constructivist project.
Now let us see four IT-based projects conducive to develop higher thinking skills and creativity among
learners.
I. RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS
The teacher steps out of the traditional role of being an context expert and information provider, and
instead lets the students find their own facts and information.
In developing software, creativity as an outcome should not be equated with ingenuity or high
intelligence. Creating is more consonant with planning, making, assembling, designing or building.
Three kinds of skills/abilities:
· Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and differences/ seeing the project as a problem to be solved.
· Synthesizing- making spontaneous connections among ideas, does generating interesting or new
ideas.
· Promoting- selling of a new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.
The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached into different ways:
Students can be made to create and post web pages on a given topic. But creating new pages, even
single page web pages, maybe tool sophisticated and time consuming fort the average student.
It should be said, however, that posting of web pages in the Internet allows the students (now the
web page creator) a wider audience. They can also be linked with other related sites in the Internet. But
as of now, this creativity project maybe too ambitious as a tool in the teaching-learning process.