Lesson 7: IT Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity
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This document discusses using computer-based methods to support higher-order thinking skills and creativity in students. It presents a framework of complex thinking skills including focusing, information gathering, analyzing, generating, organizing, imagining, designing, integrating and evaluating. The document advocates for an "upgraded project method" where teachers assign in-depth, complex and real-world projects and students make their own decisions during the process. Examples of projects include resource-based, simple creations, guided hypermedia and web-based. The document emphasizes that developing these skills is important for students' future success and that technology can drive innovation and creativity.
Lesson 7: IT Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity
- 3. At the end of this lesson , the student is enable to: Provide an integral support to Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity in Information Technology.
- 4. In the traditional information absorption model of teaching, the teacher organizes and presents information to students-learners.
- 6. Today, students are expected to be not only cognitive, but also flexible, analytical and creative.
- 7. In this lesson, there are methods proposed by the use of computer-based as an integral support to higher thinking skills and creativity.
- 8. To define higher thinking skills and creativity ,we may adopt framework that is helpful synthesis of many models and definitions of the subject matter.
- 9. The framework is not exhaustive but a helpful guide for the teacher’s effort to understand the learner’s higher learning skills.
- 10. 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
- 12. The Upgraded Project Method In this modern day, the teachers are now guided on their goal to help students achieve higher level thinking skills and creativity beyond the ordinary.
- 14. Teachers assign the students to work on projects with depth, complexity duration and relevance to the real word.
- 15. 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.
- 16. The students , not the teachers, make decisions about what to put into the project, how to organize information, how to package the outcomes for presentation, and the like.
- 17. In doing projects, there are two things that are involved: Process- refers to the steps, effort and experiences in project completion. Product- is the result or the end point of the process.
- 19. As a future teacher, we must take into consideration the process in every project because in the process, the students were able to think and apply their creativity as results they have develop their higher order thinking skills.
- 20. Resource-based projects Simple creations Guided hypermedia projects Web-based projects
- 21. 1. Does the new framework on higher thinking skills and creativity mean that teachers should no longer make efforts to help student pass/excel in achievement tests ? Explain..
- 22. 2. Can these complex thinking skills be also achieved even without using educational technology tools? Explain
- 23. Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace. Ron Kind