LESSON 8: HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT-BASED PROJECTS
- 1. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY II C E N T R A L P H I L I P P I N E U N I V E R S I T Y REPORTERS: ZULIETA, VIRGINIA S. YCOY, REGINE ANNE TARNATE , IRIES A. INSTRUCTOR: DR. MAREDIL R. AMBOS Lopez Jaena St., Jaro, Iloilo City: Western Visayas 5000 Philippines
- 2. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY II LESSON 8:Higher Thinking Skills Through IT-Based Projects
- 3. Key Elements of a constructivist Approach to Instruction The teacher create the learning environment.
- 4. Key Elements of a constructivist Approach to Instruction The teacher giving students the tool and facilities.
- 5. Key Elements of a constructivist Approach to Instruction The teacher facilitating learning.
- 6. Four IT-Based projects conducive to Develop Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity Among Learners Resource-Based Projects Simple Creations Web-Based Projects Guided Hypermedia Projects
- 7. In these projects, the teacher steps out of the traditional role of being an content expert and information provider, and instead lets the students find their own facts of information. Only when necessary for the active learning process does the teacher step in to supply data or information. RESOURCE- BASED PROJECTS
- 8. The teacher determines the topic for the examination of the class. (e.g. the definition of “man”) THE GENERAL FLOW OF EVENTS IN RESOURCE- BASED PROJECTS ARE:
- 9. The teacher presents the problem to the class. THE GENERAL FLOW OF EVENTS IN RESOURCE- BASED PROJECTS ARE:
- 10. THE GENERAL FLOW OF EVENTS IN RESOURCE- BASED PROJECTS ARE: The students find information on the. Problem/questions.
- 11. THE GENERAL FLOW OF EVENTS IN RESOURCE- BASED PROJECTS ARE: Students organize their information in response the problem/questions.
- 12. THE GUIDED HYPERMEDIA PROJECTS What is Hypermedia? Hypermedia combines the concepts of hypertext and multimedia to allow rich interaction between the user and the material. Hypertext itself is basically the same as regular text except that it contains connections within the text to other documents (Hughes, 1994).
- 13. Students as Audience of Hypermedia In the role of audience to hypermedia, students interact with hypermedia environments developed by others. Examples of this type of interaction would include reading articles in online encyclopedias, observing a PowerPoint presentation (with links and other multimedia elements) developed by a teacher, playing interactive adventure games, or looking at various interactive websites on the Internet.
- 14. The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached into different ways:
- 15. - such as in the production by students of a power-point presentation of a selective topic.
- 16. - such as when students do a multi- media presentation (with text, graphs, photos, audio narration, interviews, video clips, etc. ).
- 17. HYPERSTUDIO (by Roger Wagner Productions) is a kind of multimedia software. Handling the production of a similar computer software material is said to be too sophisticated or that technical for those average students. But, it is allowed for the students to produce poster design, computer tools and the required development of appropriate creative skills, as well.
- 18. IV. WEB-BASED PROJECTS 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 for the average student. we WEB-BASED PROJECTS
- 19. However, posting of webpages in the internet allows the students, which is now consider as webpage creator, a wide and active audience. Students can also be linked with some other related sites in the internet in connection with the project. But as of today, this creativity project may be too ambiguous as a tool in the teaching-learning process.
- 20. More teacher-librarians are discovering that the Internet can be a useful tool for resource-based learning. Online software and special sites like Fila mentality are being used by these educators to create online projects for their students.
- 21. Whether you are using an email connection with other learners or implementing a fully developed WebQuest with your students, it is important to remember that "doing an Internet project" should never be the sole purpose for students, the Internet should be an interactive and exciting tool they use for individual or collaborative inquiry and problem- solving, and for creating knowledgeable and creative products; sharing their own learning with others.