Higher Thinking Skills: HIGHER THINKING SKILLS

Higher Thinking Skills: HIGHER THINKING SKILLS: THE FOUR IT-BASED PROJECTS CONDUCIVE TO DEVELOP HIGHER THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY AMONG LEARNERS       RESOURCE BASED PROJECTS The gene...

HIGHER THINKING SKILLS

THE FOUR IT-BASED PROJECTS CONDUCIVE TO DEVELOP HIGHER THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY AMONG LEARNERS

      RESOURCE BASED PROJECTS

The general flow of events in these projects are:

       1. The teacher determines the topic for the examination of the class. (e.g definition of         a "man")

        2. The teacher presents the problem to the class.

        3. The student find information in response to the problems or questions.

            The central principle is to make students go beyond the textbook and curriculum materials. Students also encouraged to go to the library , particularly to the modern extension of the modern library, the internet.

      SIMPLE CREATIONS

Students can also be assigned to create their software materials to supplement the need and relevant and effective materials.

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

Creativity is said to combine three kind of skills or abilities:

Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and differences/ seeing the project as a problem to be solved.    

Synthesizing- making spontaneous connections among ideas, thus generating interesting or new ideas.

Promoting- selling of new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.        

To develop the creativity, the following are the five keys tasks may be recommended:

    1. Define the task

    2. Brainstorm

    3. Judge the ideas

    4. Act

    5. Adopt Flexibility

      Guided Hypermedia Projects

·                     The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approaches in two different ways:

1. As an instructive tool, such as in the production by students of a power- point presentation.

2. As a communication tool, such as when students do a multimedia presentation ( with text, graphs, photos, audio, narration, interviews, video clips, etc. to stimulate a television news show.

      Web -Based Projects

Students can be made create and post web pages on a given topic. But creating web pages, even single page web pages may be too sophisticated and time consuming for the average student.