Higher thinking skills through IT-Based Projects

It is the students themselves who demonstrate higher thinking skills and creativity through such activities searching for information, organizing and synthesizing ideas, creating presentation and the likes.

 RESOURCE-BASED PROJECTS

Resource-based learning is student-centered. Students are actively involved and more accountable for their own learning.

Skills for accessing, evaluating, using, and applying information are carefully targeted, ensuring that students meet the outcomes for information literacy identified in the approved curriculum and instructional programs.

In this project, the teacher steps out of the traditional role of being an content expert and information provider, and instead let the students fin d their own facts and information.

Flow of Resource-Based Projects are:

                            *The teacher determines the topic for the examination of the class(e.g. the definition of ‘’man’’)

                              *The teacher present the topic to the class.

                     *The students find information on the problem/question.

                               *Students organize their information in the

      response to the  problem/questions.

           The central principle is to make the students go beyond the textbook and curriculum materials. students are also encourage to go to the library, particularly to the modern extension of the modern library, the internet.

Difference between the traditional and resource-based learning approach to instruction..

Traditional learning model                                                                                                Resource learning-based projects 

Teacher is expert and information provider                               Teacher is a guide and facilitator

         Textbook is key source of information                                           Source are varied

                                                                                                                  (print, video, Internet, etc.)

Focus on facts information is packaged in neat parcels        Focus on learning inquiry/quest/discovery  

The product is the be-all and end-all of learning                                Emphasis on process  

  Assessment is quantitative                                                    Assessment is quantitative and qualitative

    WEBQUEST AS  A  RESOURCE     

        

 SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPED THE WEBQUEST AS A INTERNET APPROACH TO SUPPORT RESOURCE-BASED PROJECT, A WEBQUEST.

Is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learner are drawn from the web. webquest is designed to use learner's time well to focus support the learner’s thinking at the level of analysis and evaluation.

Simple Creation
An developing software, creativity as an outcome should not be equated with ingenuity  or high intelligence, creating is more constant with planning, making, assembling, designing, or building. creativity is said to combine three kind of skills/abilities.       

3 skills / abilities

                                

§Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and difference seeing the project as a problem to be solved.

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§Synthesizing- making spontaneous connection among ideas thus generating interest or new ideas.

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§PROMOTING- selling of new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.

 

  5 key tasks

 

§Define the task. Clarify the goal of the completed project to the student.

§Brainstorming. The student themselves will be allowed to generate their own ideas on the project.

§Judge the ideas. the student themselves make an appraisal for or against any idea.

§Act. the student do their work with the teacher a facilitator.

§Adopt flexibility. the student should be allowed to shift gears and not follow an action path rigidly.

 

Guided hypermedia projects

 

In this project, aim to test a simple system’s
effectiveness in a real-world setting.

 

The Production of Self-made Multimedia Project can be approached in two ways:

   

         *As an instructive tool, such as in the production by students of a powerpoint presentation of selected topic.

   

      *As a communication tool, such as when student do a multimedia presentation(with text, graphs, photos, audio narration, interviews, video clips, etc.)to stimulate a television news show.

Web-based projects

 

 

The Web-based School Projects Ring allows teachers and students to use the Internet for real life problem solving. For example, Tom March and Dr. Bernie Dodge created the awesome WebQuests activity formats that allows teachers to involve  PreK-Higher Education students in cooperative groups as they develop a solution that can take the form of oral presentations, web pages and multimedia presentations. The WebQuest and other Internet Projects in this Web Ring allows educators easy navigation to important sites.    

Students can be made to create and post WebPages on a given topic. but creating WebPages, even single webpage, may be too sophisticated and time consuming for the average student.

It should be said, however that posting of WebPages in the internet allows the student (now the webpage creator)a wider audience. they can also be linked with other related sites in the internet. But as of now, this creativity project may to ambitious as a tool in the teaching-learning process.