LESSON 7

IT for HIGHER
THINKING
SKILLS and
CREATIVITY

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson , the

student is enable to:
Provide an integral support to
Higher Thinking Skills and
Creativity in Information
Technology.

In the traditional information

absorption model of teaching,
the teacher organizes and
presents information to
students-learners.

He may use a variety of

teaching resources to
support lesson such as
chalkboard, videotape,
newspaper or magazine and
photos.

Today, students are

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

In this lesson, there are

methods proposed by the use
of computer-based as an
integral support to higher
thinking skills and creativity.

HIGHER LEVEL
LEARNING OUTCOMES
To define higher thinking skills
and creativity ,we may adopt
framework that is helpful
synthesis of many models and
definitions of the subject
matter.

The framework is not

exhaustive but a helpful guide
for the teachers effort to
understand the
learners higher learning
skills.

Complex Thinking Skills

Focusing

Sub-Skills
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
Organizing
Imagining
Designing
Integration
Evaluating

Deducing, inducting, elaborating

Classifying, relating
Visualizing, predicting
Planning, formulating
Summarizing, abstracting
Setting criteria, testing idea,
verifying outcomes, revising

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.

 PROJECT METHOD

Teachers

assign the
students to work on
projects with depth,
complexity duration and
relevance to the real word.

In the revised project method,

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.

CONSTRUCTIVIST PARADIGM

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.

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.

EXAMPLE OF PROCESS

 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.

EXAMPLES OF IT-BASED
PROJECTS
Resource-based projects
Simple

creations
Guided hypermedia projects
Web-based projects

QUESTION #1

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..

QUESTION #2

2. Can these complex

thinking skills be also
achieved even without
using educational
technology tools? Explain

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

THE END.

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