The document discusses using IT to encourage higher-level thinking skills and creativity in students. It presents a framework for complex thinking skills including focusing, analyzing, generating, organizing, and evaluating. By having students work on in-depth, real-world projects over time, they can engage in sustained reflective thinking and actively create information. The process of completing projects is more important than the output, as it allows students to develop thinking, psychomotor, and affective skills through steps like deciding what to include and how to package outcomes. Examples of IT-based projects include resource-based projects, simple creations, guided hypermedia, and web-based projects.

1. Lesson 7
IT for Higher Thinking
Skills and Creativity

3. Chalkboard
Videotape

4. Newspaper
Magazine
Photos

6. but a new challenge has
risen for today’s learners and
this is not simply to achieve
learning objective but to
encourage the development
of student who can do more
than receive, recall, recite
and apply the knowledge they
have acquired.

7. today, student are expected to be not only
cognitive, but also flexible, analytical and creative.

9. 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

10. 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 achievements tests.

12. • It consists in having the students
work on projects with depth,
complexity, duration and
relevance to the real world.
• 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.

13. • 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 framework
of the constructivist
paradigm.

14. Under this framework, it is the students,
not the teacher, make decisions about
what to put into the project, how to
organize information, how to package
the outcomes for presentation, and the
like.

16. The Process
The process of project implementation takes the
students to the steps, efforts, and experiences
in project completion. Thus we have to bear this
in mind:
THE PROCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT
THAN THE OUTPUT.

17. THE PROCESS REFERS TO THE
THINKING PROCESS
PSYCHOMOTOR PROCESS
AFFECTIVE PROCESS

18. The product is the result of this all-important
process. The product can be…
SUMMARY
POSTER

19. TERM PAPER
• ESSAY

20. IT BASED PRODUCT
DRAMATIC
PRESENTATION

21. Examples of IT-Based Projects
Resource – Based
Projects
Simple Creation

22. GUIDED HYPER
MEDIA PROJECTSWEB-BASED
PROJECTS