IT for HIGHER THINKING SKILLS and

CREATIVITY

LESSON 7

A new challenge has arisen for today’s learners ;

• Students who can do more than receive, recall and recite• Students who apply the knowledge they have required• Students who are cognitive, flexible, analytical and creative

THINKING SKILLS FRAMEWORKCOMPLEX 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, revising

THE UPGRADED PROJECT METHOD•For higher learning outcomes•Students work on projects with depth, complexity, duration and relevance to the real world

•Students active creation of information•Reflective thinking on topics that have a real-world quality to them

•Tighter link between the use of projects and the process of complex/higher thinking

THE CONSTRUCTIVIST PARADIGM•Students make decisions about what to put into the project

•How to organize information

•How to package the outcomes of presentation

•The teacher guides and facilitates the learning process

The PROCESS refers to the thinking/affective/psychomotor process that occurs on the part of the learner. This comprises the journey that actualizes learning.

The PRODUCT is the result of this all-important process consisting in possibly a summary, a poster, an essay, a term paper, a dramatic presentation, or an It-based product.