Lesson 7: IT for Higher Thinking Skills and Creativity

     The traditional teaching approach has been proven successful for achieving learning outcomes following the lower end of Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy: knowlege, comprehension and application are concerned.

    But then we are facing a new challenge and it is concerned with the development of the higher order thinking skills of the students. Actually, there are methods proposed for the use of computer-based technologies as an integral support to higher order thinking skills and creativity. 

     One method is the Upgraded Project Method. 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. 

    Improving Dewey project method, this new method involves students in the active creation of information. In this revised project method, there is a tighter link between the use of projects for simply coming up with products to having the students undergo the process of complex/higher thinking under the framework of the constructivist paradigm. The students are the decision-makers here while the teacher facilitates the learning process.

  THE PROCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PRODUCT. But why? It is because the process of project implementation takes the students to the steps, efforts, and experiences in project completion. Altogether, let's take the jouney to HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) and Creativity for teaching and learning in this information age.