IT FOR HIGHER THINKING SKILLSAND CREATIVITY

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

The two things involved in

doing projects.

Process

Product

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.

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.

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

Education