Educational Technology 2 (IT FOR HIGHER THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY)

2. IT FOR HIGHER
THINKING SKILLS
AND CREATIVITY

3.  In the traditional information
absorption model of teaching, the
teacher organizes and presents
information to student-learners. The
teachers uses teaching resources like
chalkboard/ whiteboard, videotape,
visual aids, charts, and the like during
the presentation and discussion of the
lesson.

4.  After the discussion, the
teacher gives the students
seat works and home works.
This teaching approach has
proven successful for
achieving learning outcomes
following the lower end of
Bloom’s Taxonomy which is
the cognitive (knowledge),
affective (attitude), and
psychomotor (skills).

6.  Today, students are
expected not only to be
cognitive, but also
flexible, analytical and
creative. In this lesson,
there are methods
proposed by the use of
computer-based as an
integral support to
higher thinking skills
and creativity.

7. The Upgraded
Project Method
 In which children solve a practical problem over a period
of several days or weeks. It may involve building a rocket,
designing a playground, or publishing a class newspaper.
The projects may be suggested by the teacher, but they
are planned and executed as far as possible by the
students themselves, individually or in groups. Project
work focuses on applying, not imparting, specific
knowledge or skills, and on improving student
involvement and motivation in order to foster
independent thinking, self-confidence, and social
responsibility.

8. Project Method
 The teacher is seen more as a facilitator than a deliver of
knowledge and information. Students in a project method
environment should be allowed to explore and experience
their environment through their senses and, in a sense,
direct their own learning by their individual interests. Very
little is taught from textbooks and the emphasis is on
experiential learning, rather than rote and memorization.
A project method classroom focuses on democracy and
collaboration to solve "purposeful" problems. The students
are advised to use computer application and high
technology in doing their projects.

9. Constructivist Paradigm
 An approach to educational administration
that combines the explanatory power of
constructivist social theory with the insights
of critical theory. The students construct
knowledge. The students, not the teacher are
the ones who make decisions about what to
put into their project, how to organize
information, how to package the outcomes
for presentation.

10. The two things involved in
doing projects.
Process
Product

11. The Process
 a detailed discussion of the rationale
and research foundation underlying
each of components.
 a discussion of the model components
illustrating strategy-based instruction
and meaning negotiation in the
classroom.
 an interlocking key activities.
 new ventures take shape.
 refers to the steps, effort and
experiences in project completion.

12. The Product
 shared interpretive schemes people use to
make sense
 a selected aspects.
 an existence of independent dimensions.
 is the result or the end point of the process.

13. Reporter: Timkang, Ma.
Christine C. BEED-General
Education