The document outlines a seminar lesson plan focused on developing higher-order thinking skills through IT-based projects. The objectives are for students to develop higher-level thinking through four IT projects and to create and decide on their own through developing thinking skills step-by-step. It introduces four types of IT-based projects: resource-based projects where students find their own information to solve problems; and simple creations involving analyzing, synthesizing, and promoting ideas. The document compares traditional and resource-based learning models and ways of traditional learning versus social learning.

1. Seminar 2013
Lesson 8

2. Let’s place ourselves in the presence of
the Lord. (Pause for a few seconds)
Dear God, we offer everything to you
during this seminar. May we ask for your
blessing and divine providence that the
activities set for this undertaking be
successful and effective.
May we also retain the invaluable
knowledge and learning experiences that
we derive from this activity, for actual
application when we leave this venue.
Your generous blessing would mean the
success of this seminar. We know that
without it, we can do nothing.
May we be living witnesses of your genuine
love, through the implementation of the
knowledge acquired through this activity.
Grant us your divine wisdom as we go about
our daily task after this seminar.
This we ask in Jesus’ name, amen.
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3. Objectives:
* The students will develop into
the higher steps of thinking
with the help of the four IT –
based projects.
* The students will be able to create
and decide in their own way and by that
the higher thinking skills of the
students will be developed step by step.
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4. Higher Thinking
Skills through
IT-Based
Projects
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7. Traditional Learning Resource - based
Model Learning Model
• Teacher is expert and • Teacher is a guide
information provider and facilitator
• Textbook is a key • Sources are varied
source of information (print, internet, &
• Focus on facts video)
information is
packaged in neat • Focuses on learning
parcels inquiry, quest, and
• The product is the discovery
be-all & end-all of • Emphasis on process
learning
• Assessment is • Assessment is
quantitative quantitative &
qualitative

8. Traditional learning
Vs.
Social learning
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9. Traditional
Ways of
Learning..
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13. The Four types of IT-based
projects
I-Resource-based
Projects
- The teacher steps out
the traditional role of being
a context expert and
information provider, and
instead let the students find
their own facts and
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14. The general flows of events in
resource-based projects:
• The teacher determines the
topic for examination of class
• The teacher presents the
problem to the class
• The students find the solution to
the problem
• Students organize their
information in response to the
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15. Resource based
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18. II-Simple Creations
• Creating is more
consonant than
planning, making
assembling,
designing or
building.
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19. Three kinds of skills/abilities:
• Analyzing- distinguishing
similarities/difference
• Synthesizing- making
spontaneous connections
among ideas
• Promoting- selling of a new
ideas to allow the public to
test the ideas themselves
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20. THANK YOU
AND HAVE A
NICE DAY !
