LESSSON 8- HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT-BASED PROJECTS

               Information Technology (IT) based projects can help develop learners higher thinking skills and creativity among learners. But still it is the students themselves who demonstrate higher thinking skills and creativity through such activities searching for information, organizing and synthesizing ideas, creating presentations and the like. Creativity of students should be recognized and approved even in simple projects because creativity should not be equated with ingenuity or high intelligence. The four IT based projects, Resource based projects which lets the students find their own facts and information and thus the teacher step in to supply data when necessary. This would encourage students to be resourceful and be able to express what they have in mind and discover their own intelligence. In simple creations students are assigned to create their software materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials this would enhance students, creativity through analyzing, synthesizing and promoting and being creative is to be simple. In Guided Hypermedia projects, it would be on the use of high technology gadgets sucj as computers by doing Power point presentations which is also very educational to students. Web based projects is through web pages posting wherein they may link to other related sites in the internet but it may be too ambitious and expensive in the teaching-learning process.