INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

for Higher Order Thinking Skills and

CreativityAnd

Higher Thinking Skills Through IT-BASED

PROJECTS    

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I T FOR HIGHER ORDER

THINKING SKILLS AND

CREATIVITYNEXT

THINKING SKILLS FRAMEWORKFOCUSING

INFORMATION GATHERING

REMEMBERING

ANALYZING

GENERATING

ORGANIZING

IMAGINING

DESIGNING

INTEGRATION

EVALUATING

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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

•setting criteria, testing idea, verifying outcomes, revising

Evaluating

The Upgraded 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 under the framework of the constructivist paradigm.

for higher learning outcomes consists in having the students work on projects with depth, complexity, duration and relevance to the real world.

Project Method

The Upgraded Project Method

refers to the thinking/affective/psychomotor process that occurs on the part of the learner.

Process

*The process is more important than the product.

The result of is all-important process consisting in possibly a summary, a poster, an essay, a term paper, a dramatic, presentation, or an

The Upgraded Project Method

Output

IT-BASED PRODUCT

Output

Proce ss

Input

The Upgraded Project Method

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Resourc

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projects

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creatio

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Key Elements Of a Constructivist

Approach to Instructions

creating the learning environmentgiving students the tools and facilitates, and

facilitating learning

The teacher…

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RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS

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Flow of event:The teacher determines the topic for the examination of the classThe teacher presents the problem to the classThe students find information on the problem/questions.the central principle: to make the students go beyond the text-book and curriculum materials, etc.

teacher is

expert and informatio

n provider

teacher is

guide and

facilitator

THE LEARNING MODELS

TRADITIONAL

RESOURCE-BASED

THE LEARNING MODELS

TRADITIONALLEARNING MODEL

RESOURCE-BASED LEARNING MODEL

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textbook is key

source of

information

sources are

varied (print, video, Internet, etc.)

THE LEARNING MODELS

TRADITIONAL

RESOURCE-BASED

focus on

facts; information is packaged in neat

parcels

focus on

learning

inquiry/quest/discov

ery

THE LEARNING MODELS

TRADITIONAL

RESOURCE-BASED

the product is the

be-all and end-all of learni

ng

emphasis on

process

THE LEARNING MODELS

TRADITIONAL

RESOURCE-BASED

assessment is quantitative

assessment is quantitative and

qualitative

THE LEARNING MODELS

TRADITIONAL

RESOURCE-BASED

SIMPLE CREATIONSkinds

of skills and abilities

keys to develo

p creativ

ity

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SIMPLE CREATIONS

Analyzing

Synthesizing

Promoting

SIMPLE CREATIONS

Define the task

Brainstorm

Judge the ideas

Act Adopt flexibility

Guided hyper-media projects

Two Different Approach

Communication tool

Instructive tool

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WEB-BASED PROJECTS

This creativity project may be too ambitious as a tool in the teaching-learning process.

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Their role …..

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• make decisions about what to put into the project,

• how to organize information,

• how to package the outcomes for presentation, and the like.

guides and facilitates the

learning process

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