Sunday, August 9, 2015

Lesson 8: Higher Thinking Skills through IT-Based Projects

Content
            There are Four types of IT-based Projects can effectively be used in order to engage students in activities of a higher plane of thinking.

1. Resource-based Projects – in these projects. The teacher steps out of the traditional role of being a content expert and information provider and instead let the students do the work in gathering the information. Teacher facilitates and only steps in to supply data or information. Sources are varied, it focuses on learning inquiry/quest or discovery, gives emphasis to process and resource-based project is both quantitative and qualitative.

2. Simple Creation- this focused on the creativity of the students. Creativity involves three kinds of skills/abilities: analyzing, synthesizing and promoting. In order to develop creativity, there are five key tasks. First, define the task, second brainstorm, third judge the idea, fourth act and then last is adopting flexibility. Students can also be assigned to create their software materials such as Creative Writer (Microsoft) on writing, Kidwork Deluxe on drawing and painting, and Media Wave on multimedia.

3.Guided Hypermedia Projects- the production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached in two different ways: instructive tool such as in the production by students of a powerpoint presentation of a selected topic and communication tool such as when students do a multimedia presentation.

4. Web-based projects- students can be made to create and post web pages on a given topic.

Experience
            In Educational Technology 1, these types of projects are applied to us. The instructor let us do tasks which developed our individual skills. It developed our creativity also especially in the making of web-based power point, editing of video through Power Director, editing of images using Photoshop, etc.

Reflection
            The development of students’ creative and thinking skills depends a lot on how teacher utilize the use of technology to help students trigger their interests. The big challenge also is facing those teachers in far-flung areas to introduce learners to this innovation. In this case, teachers must be resourceful through the use of available resources, the community and outside the classroom to help students even more productive. With this approach, teachers will inculcate abilities of learners to be flexible in whatever field they will choose in the future.

Application

            Using technology in teaching does not mean teachers relax because they rely on the technology, instead teachers must wisely use technology for better learning of students. As future educators, it is a big challenge for us to be flexible and creative ourselves in using technology so as to show students the outcomes that they too should look us as models.

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