Higher Thinking Skills Through IT Based Project

1. Presented By: Wanda Luna T. Tolores
Winstrell M. Bandiola
BSED III A
Lesson VIII:
Higher Thinking Skills through
IT-Based Projects

2. Overview
In this lesson, we shall discuss four
types of based projects which can effectively
be used in order to engage students in
activities of a higher plane of thinking. To be
noted is the fact that these projects differ in
the specific process and skills employed, also
in the ultimate activity or platform used to
communicate complete product to others.

3. "Thinking skills" has become a generic
phrase used to encompass many processes
involved in learning and problem solving.
Different researchers and curriculum specialists
have emphasized different processes. Teaching
of thinking refers to the direct instruction of
thinking skills and strategies. Teachers should be
aware of definitions and distinctions among
various thinking skills, introduce skills directly as
lessons and incorporate thinking strategies into
content areas.

4. a) The teacher creating the learning
environment.
b) The teacher giving students the
tool
c) The teacher facilitating
learning.
KEY ELEMENTS OF A
CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH:

5. FOUR IT-BASED PROJECTS
I RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS
II SIMPLE CREATIONS
III GUIDED HYPERMEDIA
PROJECTS
IV WEB-BASED PROJECTS

6. I. RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS
The teacher steps out of
the traditional role of
being an context expert
and information
provider, and instead
lets the students find
their own facts and
information.

7. THE GENERAL FLOWS OF EVENTS IN
RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS ARE:
I. The teacher determines
the topic for the
examination of class.
II. The teacher presents
the problem to the class.
III. The students find
information on the
problem/questions.
IV. Students organize their
information in response to
the problem/questions.

9. Furthermore, the inquiry-based or discovery
approach is given importance in resource-
based projects.
Finally, the process is given more importance
than the project product.

10. Traditional learning model Resource-based learning model
Teacher is expert and information
provides
Teacher is a guide and facilitator
Textbook is key source of
information
Sources are varied(print, video.
Internet, etc.)
Focus on facts
Information is packaged
In neat parcels
Focus on learning inquiry, quest, or
discovery
The product is the be-all and end-all
of learning
Emphasis on process
Assessment is quantitative Assessment is quantitative and
qualitative.
TRADITIONAL AND RESOURCE-
BASED LEARNING

11. II. SIMPLE CREATIONS
In developing
software, creativity
as an outcome
should not be
equated with
ingenuity or high
intelligence.

12. Creativity is said to combine three kinds of
skills/abilities:
Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and
differences/ seeing the project as a
problem to be solved.
Synthesizing- making spontaneous
connections among ideas, does
generating interesting or new ideas.
Promoting- selling of a new ideas to allow the
public to test the ideas themselves.

13. • Define the task- clarify the goal of the
completed project to the student.
• Brainstorm- the students themselves will be
allowed to generate their own ideas on the
project. Rather than shoot down ideas, the
teacher encourages ideas exchange.
• Judge the ideas- the students themselves
make an appraisal for or against any idea.
Only when students are completely off check
should the teacher intervene.
• Act- the students do their work with the
teacher a facilitator.
• Adopt flexibility- the students should be
allowed to shift gears and not follow an
action path rigidly.
The Five Key Task To Develop
Creativity:

14. The production of self-made multimedia
projects can be approached into different
ways:
Instructive tools
Constructive tools

15. Instructive tools
Such as in the
production by
students of a
power point
presentation of a
selective topic.

16. Constructive tools
Such as when students
do a multi-media
presentation (with text,
graphs, photos, audio
narration, interviews,
video clips, etc. to
simulate a television
news show.

17. IV. WEB-BASED
PROJECTS
Students can be made to
create and post web
pages on a given topic.
But creating new pages,
even single page web
pages, maybe tool
sophisticated and time
consuming fort the
average student.

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