Higher Thinking Skills Through It-Based Projects

HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH
IT-BASED PROJECTS
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In this lesson, we shall discuss about four types of IT-
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 on the
specific process and skills employed, also in the
ultimate activity or platform used to communicate
completed products to others.
It is to be understood that these
projects do not address all of the
thinking skills shown previously in
the Thinking Skills Framework. But
these projects represent
constructivist approach to
instruction.
Key Elements of a
constructivist approach:
a)The teacher creating the learning
environment.
b) The teacher giving
students the tool and
facilities.
c) The teacher
facilitating
learning.
FOUR IT-BASED PROJECT
I. RESOURCE-BASED
PROJECTS
II. SIMPLE CREATIONS
III. GUIDED HYPERMEDIA
PROJECTS
IV. WEB-BASED PROJECTS
The teacher steps out
of the traditional
I. RESOURCE- role
of being an content
BASED expert and
PROJECTS information provider,
and instead lets the
students find their
own facts and
information.
The General flow of events in Resource-Based
Projects
1. The teacher determines the topic for the
examination of class (e.g. “the definition of
the man”)
2. The teacher presents the problem to the class.
3. The students find information on
the problem/questions.
4. Students organize their information in response
to the problem/questions.
Relating to finding information, tsthe central
principle is to make the students “go beyond the
textbook and curriculum materials”.
Students are also encouraged to go to the

library, particularly to the modern
extension of the modern library, the
internet.
TRADITIONAL LEARNING MODEL RESOURCE-BASED LEARNING MODEL
Teacher is expert & information

Teacher is a guide & facilitator
provider
Source are varied

Textbook is key source of information
(print, video, internet ,etc.)
Focus on facts information is Focus on learning

packaged In neat parcels inquiry/quest/discovery
The product is the be-all and end-all

Emphasis of process
of learning
Assessment is quantitative and
Assessment in quantitative
qualitative
II.SIMPLE CREATIONS
⚫Students can also be assigned to create their
software materials to supplement the need for
relevant and effective materials.Of course, there
are available software materials such as creative
writer (by microsoft) on writing, kidWork Deluxe
(by Davidson) on drawing and painting, and
MediaWeave by Humanities software0 on
multimedia.
Creating is more consonant with planning,
making, assembling, designing, or building.
Creativity is said to combine three kind of
skills/abilities:
⚫Analyzing
⚫Synthesizing
⚫Promoting
To develop creativity, the following five key tasks
may be recommended:
1. Define the tasks

2. Brainstorm
3. Judge the ideas
4. Act
5. Adopt flexibility
The Upgraded 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 test.
Project Method For Higher
Learning Outcomes
Consists in having the students work on

projects with depth, complexity, duration and
relevance to the real world.
Project
Method
There is a tighter link between the use of projects
for simply coming up with products to having the
students undergo the process of complex/higher
thinking under the framework of the constructivist
paradigm.
The
The Process
process of project implementation
takes the students to the steps, efforts,
and experiences in project completion.
Guided Hypermedia
Projects
⚫As an instructive tool, such as in the
production by students of power-point
presentation of a selective topic.
⚫As a communication tool, such
as when students do a
multimedia presentation ( with
text, graphics, photos, audio
narration, interviews, video clips,
etc. to simulate a television news
Web Based Project
Web Based Project
⚫Students can be made to create and post

webpages on a given topic.
• But creating webpages, even single page webpages, may
be too sophisticated and time consuming for the
average students
⚫However, that posting of webpages in the
Internet allows the students a wider
audience.
⚫They can also be linked with other related
cites in the Internet.
⚫But as of now, this creativity project may be
too ambitious tool as a tool in the
teaching-learning process.
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning
families, it makes our job easier.
If they do not come to us from strong, healthy,

functioning families, it makes our job more important.
-Barbara Colorose

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HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH

Students are also encouraged to go to the

Teacher is expert & information

Source are varied

Focus on facts information is Focus on learning

The product is the be-all and end-all

1. Define the tasks

Consists in having the students work on

⚫Students can be made to create and post

If they do not come to us from strong, healthy,

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