Lesson 7; IT for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity

Content    

                                 Thinking Skills Framework

Complex 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, verifying outcomes, revising

The upgrade project method given these complex thinking skills, the modern day teacher can now be guided on his goal to help student achieve higher level thinking skills and creativity beyond the ordinary benchmark of the student’s passing, even excelling achievement tests. When the ordinary classrooms are lacking with instructional kits, use the project method to bring students to higher domains. In a project method, students work on projects with depth complexity, duration, and relevance to the real world. There is already a revised project method wherein the students would make decisions about what to put on the project, how to organize information and how to package the outcomes for presentation while the teacher guides and facilitates the learning process.

Experience

                This new design framework for developing thinking skills is new to me. It is certainly awesome to experience beyond what was design by Benjamin Bloom, also known as Bloom’s taxonomy which actually limits the potential of the students to develop more conceptual ideas. As students, although the following thinking skills are simulated in classroom (seldom), it is not that kind of very effective most especially if teachers are being passive.

Reflection

                21^th Century learners are merely more innovative more than we can imagine. We don’t have any idea how broad and enthusiast they are in terms of learning. Shall we say, learning is unlimited with a different learning style more than what we have known and discovered. Hence, intricate styles were design to surpass the thinking skills and creativity for higher order thinking skills, using an IT based projects in teaching. The following will surely be implemented to students accompanied by technology assessment throughout learning process. Since process is important than the product, teacher must also navigate his/her students on the applications of complex thinking skills and creativity during the activity to avoid revision and waste of time.

Application

                Prerequisite of being a facilitator in a classroom instruction is the implementation of the following complex thinking skills. Otherwise, I will be traditional teacher over and over again. If not, everything will end up nothing. I will develop the higher order thinking skills and creativity of my students using an IT based project in which learners can directly integrate resources using a computer as a medium in the assimilation of learning. Nevertheless, complexes are design to integrate and evaluate, rather than just knowing the concept.