The document discusses using technology and project-based learning to develop higher-level thinking skills. It presents Bloom's Taxonomy and defines higher-level thinking as skills like analyzing, generating, organizing, imagining, designing, integrating, and evaluating. The modern teacher is encouraged to help students achieve these skills through computer-based projects with depth, complexity, duration and real-world relevance. Such upgraded project methods focus more on the thinking process than just the product, taking students through steps of complex project completion.

2.  The presentation is followed by
discussion and the giving of assignment.
Among the assignments maybe 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.

3.  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
chalkboard,
videotape
,
newspapers or magazine and
photos.

4.  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.

5. 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.

6. COMPLEX THINKING SKILLS
SUB- SKILLS
Focusing
Defining the problem, goal/ objectivesetting, brainstorming
Information gathering
Selection, recording of data of
information
Remembering
Associating, relating new data with old
Analyzing
Identifying idea construct, patterns
Generating
Deducting, inducting, elaborating
Organizing
Classifying, relating
Imagining
Visualizing, predicting
Designing
Planning, formulating
Integration
Summarizing, abstracting
evaluating
Setting criteria, testing idea, verifying
outcomes, revising

7. THE UPGRADED PROJECT METHOD
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 students passing even
excelling achievement tests.

8. There is a tighter link between the
use of projects for simply coming up
with the products to having the
students undergo the process of
complex/ higher thinking under the
framework of the constructivist
paradigm.

9. The project method for
higher
learning
outcomes
consists in having the students
work on projects with depth,
complexity,
duration
and
relevance to the real world.

10. THE PROCESS
The process of project implementation
takes the students to the steps, efforts,
and experiences in project completion.
THE PROCESS IS MORE
THAN THE PRODUCT..

11. The process refers to the
thinking/ affective/ psychomotor
process that occurs on the part of
the learner. This comprises the
journey that actualizes learning.

12. The product is the result of this allimportant process consisting in a
possibly a summary, a poster, an essay,
a term paper, a dramatic presentation,
or an IT- based product.

13. Examples of IT- based projects:
 resource- based projects
 simple creations
 guided hyper- media projects
 web- based projects

14. But for now, let’s recap: LETS
TAKE THE JOURNEY TO HIGHER/
COMPLEX THINKING SKILLS AND
CREATIVITY for teaching-and-learning
in an information age.

15. THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING!!!!!!!

16. Prepared by:
MISCHELLE C. SANCHEZ
JESSICA BALELA
BSED 312/ SOCIAL STUDIES