Traditionally, a teacher organizes and presents information to the student-learners. Today, the challenge is not simply to achieve learning objectives but to encourage the development of students. Students are expected to be flexible, analytical and creative. In this lesson, there are methods proposed for the use of computer-based technologies as an integral support to higher thinking skills and creativity.
Complex Thinking Skills and Sub-skills
Focusing - defining the problem, goal/objective-setting, brainstorming
Information Gathering - selection, recording of data of information
Remembering - associating, relating new data with old
Analyzing - identifying idea constructs, patterns
Generating - deducing, inducting, elaborating
Organizing - classifying, relating
Imagining - visualizing, predicting
Designing - planning, formulating
Integration - summarizing, abstracting
Evaluating - setting criteria, testing idea, verifying outcomes, revising
Given these complex thinking skills, the modern day teacher can now be guided on his goal to help student achieve higher level thinking skills and creativity beyond the ordinary benchmark of the student's passing, even excelling achievement tests.
Computer programs would give a lot of help to students who are in the process of learning, to an easy way of attaining greater possibilities of research presentations. Yet, in the process, the students should always be guided and evaluated for many would just do a "copy-paste" research and study presentations. Which means that the technique could give ample positive possibilities but, without a proper guidelines and practice, students, and the teachers as well, will fall into plagiarism; which is a common problem now a days in the colleges and universities all over the world.
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