Educational Technology 2

Higher Thinking Skills Through IT-Based Project

Resource-Based Learning

It has a strong relationship to Inquiry Learning, Project- Based Learning and Problem-Based Learning.Provides opportunities for practicing the information literacy skills and critical-thinking skills necessary to deal with the explosion of information that is available at our fingertips.Student-centred and allows them to discover knowledge for themselves.Promotes the teacher as a facilitator and guide.

Assessment of Resource-Based Learning

With Resource-Based Learning, it is important to assess both the process that is undertaken by the students and the product that they create. Assessment identifies the information literacy skills that students have mastered and helps to determine areas where further instruction is needed.A variety of methods for gathering data are encouraged.

The general flow of events in resource-based projects are:

 1. The teacher determines the topic for the examination of the class.

 2. The teacher presents the problem to the class.

 3. The students find information on the problem/questions.

 4. Students organize their information in response to the problem/questions.

Simple Creation

Students can also be assigned to create their software materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials. In developing software, creativity as an outcome should not be equated with ingenuity or high intelligence. Creating is more consonant than planning. making, assembling, designing, or building.

        Because of simple creation, the students will become more creative with their learning.

 Creativity combine three kind of skills/abilities:

 1. Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and differences seeing the project as a problem to be solved.

 2. Synthesizing- making spontaneous connections among ideas, thus generating interesting or new ideas.

 3. Promoting- selling of new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.

Guided Hypermedia Projects

It is a self-made multimedia projects that you can use for your instruction or discussion. It can be approached in two different ways:

1. As an Instructive tool , such as in the production by the students of a power point presentation.

You can apply this in your discussion.It is easy for the teacher to catch up the attention of the students because they love moving letters or pictures and also sounds and the teacher can discussed well the topic because of its beautiful visual aid which is suitable for the topic.

2. As a communication tool when students do a multimedia presentation to stimulate a television news show.

It is easy for the teacher to discuss about news or literature if they have tools like television or you can use your own video clips in order to present the topic they wanted.

Web-based projects

        Students can also create and post webpages on a given topic. Posting of webpages in the in the internet is very helpful in the learning of students for it allows the students to have a wider audience. They can also connect with other related sites in the internet.