Written Report

Maestro, Hanz Robert M.

Bse-tle 3a

January 8, 2012 

                      IT for higher thinking skills and creativity

I. Objectives:
            1. Know higher level thinking skills and creativity
           2. Appreciate IT for higher thinking skills and creativity
           3. Know project method for higher learning outcomes

II. Introduction

In the traditional information absorption model of teaching, the teacher organizes and presents information to student-learners. He may use a variety of teaching resources to support the lesson such as the chalkboard, videotape, newspaper or magazine and the photos. The presentation is followed by discussion and the giving of assignment. Among the assignment may be a research on a given topic. This teaching approach has been proven successful for achieving learning outcomes following the lower end of Bloom's Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension and application are concerned.

Today, students are expected to be not only cognitive, but also flexible, analytical and creative. In this lesson, there are methods proposed for the use of computer based technologies as an integral support to higher thinking skills and creativity.

III. Learning content
IT for higher thinking skills and creativity

Content
            In this lesson we should discuss the methods proposed for the use of computer-based technologies as an integral support to higher thinking skills and creativity

Sub-topic
-Higher level learning outcome
-The upgraded project method
-the process

higher level learning outcomes-

To define higher level thinking skills and creativity, we may adopt a framework that is a helpful synthesis of many models and definitions on the subject matter. The framework is not exhaustive but a helpful guide for the teacher's effort to understand the learner's higher learning process

Complex                                                                                Sub-skills

Thinking 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, and elaborating.

Organizing- Classifying, relating.

Imagining- Visualizing, predicting.

Designing- Planning, formulating.

Integration- Summarizing, abstracting.

Evaluating - Setting criteria, testing, idea, verifying outcomes, revising.

the upgraded project method
             give 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 bench mark of student's passing ,even excelling achievement tests. Given the fact that the ordinary classroom is awfully lacking in instructional toolkits to bring students to the higher domains of learning and achieving, the project method is suggested

To explain, the project method for higher learning outcomes consist in having the students work on projects with depth, complexity, duration and relevance to the real world. Improving on the Dewey project method, this new method involves students in the active creation of information, such that there is sustained reflective thinking on topics that have a real-world quality to them

The process

the process of implementation takes the students to the steps, efforts, and experience in project completion

The process is more important that the products

          the process refers to the thinking/affective/psycho-motor 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.

In the succeeding lessons, we shall examine examples of IT-based projects. These are:

-resource-based projects

-simple creation

-guided hyper-media projects

-web-based project

IV. Vocabulary words
Exhaustive -                 Comprehensive in scope; thorough: an exhaustive survey 2. tending to exhaust
Comprises-  To include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
Complexity – the state or quality of being complex intricacy: the complexity of urban life.

V. Summary
Information technology hardware and software programs have excellent possibilities for assisting in the development of higher thinking skills and creativity projects

VI. Conclusion/recommendation
          the teacher should be understand the learner's higher learning process for them to have a guide

VII. Post-test

1. It is composed of defining the problem, goal/objective, setting, brainstorming.

2. What kinds of complex thinking skills is visualizing and predicting.

3. It is identifying idea constructs, patters.

4. It is classifying and relating.

5. It is associating, relating new data with old.

1. Focusing
2. Imagining
3. Analyzing
4. Organizing
5. Remembering

VIII. Reference/s:
-Educational Technology II
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