LESSON 8: HIGHER THIKING SKILLS THROUGH IT BASED PROJECTS

LESSON 8 : Higher  Thinking Skills through IT Based Projects

CONTENT

            This lesson tackles about the higher thinking skills through information technology projects. It has three key elements of constructivist approach, (1) Teacher creating the learning environment, (2) Teacher giving student tools and facilities, and lastly (3) Teacher facilitates learning. Information Technology based projects is very conducive to develop higher thinking skills through this students will be creative and they will go more deeper on what they learn. Resource based projects also use to help students. This are the general flow of events: (1) Teacher determines topic for examination of class. (2) Teacher present the problem, (3) Students firn information, (4) Students organize information. In this way students will be independent in learning. Teacher will be just a mentor and a facilitator in a class, students will be expected to discover answers by themselves. The central principle is to make students go beyond textbook and curriculum. The inquiry based approachor the discovery approach is the approach used by the teachers in order to help his/her students in learning process.

            We all know that the teaching and learning nowadays changes. From the traditional approach to resource based learning, students become more motivated to learn. In traditional approach teachers is the expert and information provider, textbook is key source of the information, product is the be-all and end-all of leaning and assessment is quantitative. While in todays generation which uses the resource based learning model, the teacher is guide and facilitator, sources are varied, it focuses on learning inquiry, it emphasizes on the process and assessment is both quantitative and qualitative.

EXPERIENCE

            As what I have experience, when I was in grade school our teacher help us one on one on our learning process, compare to my sister who is in grade school today they are the one who discover the answer, they have this mini experiment, field trips and many more in which students were free to interact with its other students. They are more student centered approach. When I was in high school that was the moment when I experience the resource based approach, our teachers let us to look for answers and they are just guide and facilitator. It is more amazing today’s approach that was use because students are involves and there is a big change where students learn more that the traditional way of learning.

REFLECTION

            As a future teacher, we must change the way, the approaches and the teaching styles we will use since students nowadays are changing and developing. There are more cooperative, participative, more motivated to learn.

APPLICATION

            There is lot of teaching strategies today to help our learners to be higher thinkers. We must help them that will develop more their thinking skills using resource based projects. Software’s and applications online can be utilized. Traditional way is good but we must help our student’s to become more globally competitive.