Week 3 team c
- 1. Higher order thinking skills Definition Designing, constructing, in venting, producing, and planning. Provides opportunities to generate ideas, design plans, and produce products. Planning: production of a plan Producing: derivation of a set of abstract relations Expected student skills – Cognitive levels Construct designs? Generate possibilities? Compose ideas? Propose hypotheses? Produce solutions? Brainstorm solutions? Design products? Assemble plans? Rearrange operations? Imagine possibilities? Activities Develop the script for a video. Construct a book. Develop a podcast. Digital tools Prezi is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to PowerPoint for creating interactive presentations. Microsoft Excel is a tool for communicating information visually through charts and graphs
- 2. Higher order thinking skills Judging, checking, critiquing, detecting, and monitoring. Definition Helps learners make judgments using: Internal evidence (checking) External criteria (critiquing) Expected student skills – Cognitive levels Check for accuracy? Activities Compare proposals using Skype. Detect inconsistencies? Monitor effectiveness? Use discussion tools to debate the merits of your proposals. Evaluate procedures? Critique solutions? Appraise efficiency? Judge techniques? Contrast performance? Check the probability of results? Beta test each others’ projects. Digital tools Learners can use tools like Survey Monkey to construct and deliver surveys and evaluate the results. Rubrics let learners know how they will be evaluated. Allowing learners to get involved in creating rubrics helps get them engaged in the assessment process. It also helps learners have a better understanding of how they are being evaluated.
- 3. Higher order thinking skills Outlining, organizing, comparing, finding and structuring. Definition Improves user’s ability to differentiate between the relevant and irrelevant, determine relationships, and recognize the organization of content by analysis of: Elements (differentiating) Relationships (attributing) Organizational principles (organizing) Expected student skills – Cognitive levels Discriminate fact from hypothesis? Distinguish the relevant from irrelevant? Observe the structure? Select important elements? Determine biases? Recognize intent? Deconstruct content? Understand the relationships? Organize content? Activities Create a mindmap. Graph and analyze results. Use a mindmap to compare and contrast the main ideas in the assigned reading. Digital tools Mindmaps are diagrams that show words, ideas, tasks, or other items arranged around a central key word or idea. Mindomo is one mindmapping tool that could be used for this purpose. Microsoft Word and other word processing programs can be used to create outlines, diagrams, essays, and research papers.
- 4. Higher order thinking skills Using, implementing, executing, and carrying out. Definition Provides opportunities to implement learned procedures and methods Expected student skills – Cognitive levels Demonstrate methods and procedures? Activities Create a proposed timeline for the project. Carry out procedures? Find and interview two people who have the experience you desire. Use ideas or knowledge? Discover a new purpose for skills or knowledge? Employ knowledge in new situations? Experiment with concepts in a different setting? Adjust knowledge for use in a different context? Apply procedures to unique situations? Digital tools We can encourage learners to apply what they are learning using a variety of tools such as Skype. Picasa is a tool for organizing, editing, and sharing photos. Instructors could ask learners to use this tool to organize images to construct a story
- 5. Higher order thinking skills Comparing, inferring, summarizing, explaining, and interpreting. Definition Helps users connect new learning to prior knowledge Expected student skills – Cognitive levels Summarize facts and ideas? Activities Summarize the content in a blog post. Restate methods or procedures? Explain a topic to the rest of the class in a screencast. Interpret relationships? Paraphrase information? Predict consequences? Give examples? Re-tell information in own words? Retell events? State problem in own words? Explain ideas or concepts? Determine importance? Digital tools Some of the best resources for enhancing learners’ understanding of material and concepts include TED and Khan Academy Learners can research topics on their own or instructors can assign videos to be watched before a lesson, so instructor time can be used for Q&A, practice, and other interactions.
- 6. Higher order thinking skills Listing, naming, describing, recognizing, finding, and retrieving. Definition Improves the user’s ability to define terms, identify facts, and recall and locate information Expected student skills – Cognitive levels Define information? Activities Create flashcards from the module. Name facts? Fill in a cloze exercise. Recite information? List facts or details? Recall facts or ideas? Locate facts or ideas? Retrieve information? Describe information? Recognize facts or ideas in context? Determine importance? Look up the works in the glossary. Digital tools Google Documents and Zoho are comprehensive suites of online business, productivity, and collaboration applications. Shared documents allow groups to collaborate on content. Delicious is a social bookmarking tool that learners can use to save and organize useful websites. Instructors can assemble resources for students and then share them.