HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT-BASED PROJECTS

There are 4 IT-Based project conducive to higher thinking  Skills & creating among learners  ;

I. Resource – Based Projects

•The teacher steps out of the traditional role of being a content experts & information providers & instead let the students find their own facts & information. Only when necessary for the active learning process does the teacher steps in to supply in to data/information. 

 

General Flow of Resource- Based Projects

- determine the topic

- Present problem

- Find the information go beyond the text book & curriculum materials & internet

- Organize information

- Requires that the students to relate gathered information to real words.

-The process is given more important than the project product.

Traditional learning model

Teacher is expert and information provider.

Textbook is key source of information.

Focus on facts.

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

Assessment is quantitative.

       Resource-based learning model

   

      Teacher is a facilitator

       Sources are varied

       Focus on learning inquiry/discovery

        II. SIMPLE CREATIONS

-Students create  their software materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials.

-Creating is more constant with planning, making, assembling, designing, or building.

•  Creativity  is said to combine of 3 kind of skills/abilities.

  1. Analyzing  

  2. Synthesizing

    3. Promoting 

•  5 key task can may be recommended.
•   Define task.
•     Brainstorm
•     Judge the ideas
•     Act
•     Adopt flexibility
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• III. GUIDED HYPERMEDIA  PROJECTS

 v The production of self-made multimedia project can be approach in two different ways.

•        As an instructive tool, such, as in the production by students of a power-point presentation of a selected topic.
•        As a communication tool, such as when students do a multimedia presentation ( with text, graphs, photos, audio narration, interview, video clips, etc., to simulate a television news show.

IV. WEb-BASED PROJECTS

v Students can be made to create & post webpages on a given topic. But creating webpages, even single page webpage, may be too sophisticated & time consuming for the average students.

v It should be said, however, that posting of webpages in the internet allows the students ( now the webpages creator) a wider audience. They can also be linked with other related sites in the internet. But as of now, this creativity project may be to ambitious as a tool in the teaching-learning process. 

HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT