HIGHER THINKING SKILLS

THROUGH IT-BASED PROJECTS

OVERVIEW: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 is

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.

Key Elements of a Constructivist Approach:a) The teacher creating the learning environment.

b) The teacher giving students the tool and facilities.

c)      The teacher facilitating learning.

Four IT-based Projects

II. SIMPLE CREATIONS

III. GUIDED HYPERMEDIA PROJECTSIV. WEB-BASED PROJECTS

I. RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS

 

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.

I. RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS

THE GENERAL FLOWS OF EVENTS IN RESOURCE-BASED

PROJECTS ARE:1. The teacher determines the

topic for the examination of class.

2. The teacher presents the problem to the class.

3. The students find information

on the problem/questions.4. Students organize their information in response to the problem/questions.

Relating to finding information, the central principle is to make the students “go beyond the textbook and curriculum materials”.

Students are encouraged to go to the library,

particularly to the modern extension of the modern library,

the Internet.

Furthermore, the inquiry-based or

discovery approach is given importance in

resource-based projects.

Finally, the process is given more

importance than the project product.

Traditional learning model

Resource-based learning model

1. Teacher is expert and information provides

1. Teacher is a guide and facilitator

2. Textbook is key source of information

2. Sources are varied(print, video. Internet, etc.)

3. Focus on factsInformation is packagedIn neat parcels

3. Focus on learning inquiry, quest, or discovery

4. The product is the be-all and end-all of learning

4. Emphasis on process

5. Assessment is quantitative 5. Assessment is quantitative and qualitative.

TRADITIONAL AND RESOURCE-BASED LEARNING

TRADITIONAL ANDRESOURCE-BASED LEARNING

II. SIMPLE CREATIONS

more consonant

with planning,

making,

assembling,

designing and/or

building.

In developing

software, creativity as

an outcome should not

be equated with

ingenuity or high

intelligence.

Creativity is said to combine 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 five key task to develop creativity:

Define the task- clarify the goal of the completed project to the student.

Brainstorm- the students themselves will be allowed to generate their own ideas on the project. Rather than shoot down ideas, the teacher encourages ideas exchange.

Judge the ideas- the students themselves make an appraisal for or against any idea. Only when students are completely off check should the teacher intervene.

Act- the students do their work with the teacher a facilitator.

Adopt flexibility- the students should be allowed to shift gears and not follow an action path rigidly.

III.  GUIDED HYPERMEDIA PROJECTSIII.  GUIDED HYPERMEDIA PROJECTS

The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached into different ways:

1. Instructive tools

2.Constructive tools

- such as in the

production by students of a

power-point presentation of

a selective topic.

1. Instructive Tool

- such as when

students do a multi-

media presentation

(with text, graphs,

photos, audio

narration, interviews,

video clips, etc. ).

2. Constructive Tools

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.

IV. WEB-BASED PROJECTS

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 to ambitious as a tool in the teaching-learning process.

Presented by:Genevieve G. BestudioJay Ryan BurdasJean Bongcayao

BSED 303