Content
These projects represent constructivist approach, containing the key elements to instruction, namely: the teacher creating the learning environment, the teacher giving students the tools and facilities, and the teacher facilitating learning. 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.
Resource-based Projects
The
teacher steps out of the traditional role of being a content expert and
information provider, and instead lets the students find their own facts and
information. Only when necessary for the active learning process does the
teacher step in to supply data or information. Relating to finding information,
the central principle is to make the students go beyond the textbook and
curriculum materials. Students are also encouraged to go to library,
particularly to the modern extension of the modern library, the internet. The
process is given more importance tan the project product. It doesn’t matter if
student come up with different answers, what matter is the varied resources of
information, the line of thinking and the ability to argue in defe3nse of their
answers.
Webquest as a Resource
Webquest
is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by
learners are drawn from the web. It is designed to use learners’ time well, to
focus on information rather than looking for it. It also supports the learners’
thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
Simple Creations
Students
can also be assigned to create their software materials to supplement the need
for relevant and effective materials. There are available software materials
such as Creative Writer (by Microsoft) on writing, KidWork Deluxe (by Davidson)
on drawing and painting, and MeiaWeave (by Humanities Software) on multimedia.
In developing software, creativity as an outcome should not be equated with
ingenuity or high intelligence. Creating is more consonant with planning,
making, assembling, designing or building.
Guided Hypermedia Project
The
production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached in two different
ways:
1. As an instructive tool, such as
in the production by students of a power-point
presentation of
a selected topic.
2. As a communication tool, such as
when students do a multimedia presentation to
simulate a
television news show.
Web-Based Projects
Students
can be made to create and post webpages on a given topic. But creating
webpages, may be too consuming and time consuming for the average student. It
should be said, however, that posting of webpages in the Internet allows the
students a wider audience. They can also be linked with other related sites in
the Internet. Creativity projects as tools in the teaching-learning process can
be achieved with the assistance of advisers a depth in the technical use of
Internet resources.
Experience
Some of our teacher exposed us to IT-based approach. One of it is that uploading reading material (PDF) to Gmail and let us to download and take a copy. Teacher nowadays always let us to come up with a good power-point presentation in every topic that they assigned to us. We also have our CERA output and to be uploaded to blogger.com. We also have EDMODO before, photo editing, audio-video recording, and many more. That is to enhance higher thinking skills through IT-based projects.
Reflection
Future educator must be expose to this kind of activity, because 21st century learners are different from traditional learners. They are more advance and more expose to technology. Teaching through traditional style is no longer appropriate to 21st century learners. They will not really listen to you at all, they will be bored at your discussion, they might not learn, and that’s the most crucial thing to happen. But future educator will not allow that to happen. Of course, we are trying our very best in spite of difficulties. Because we believe that someday we will be able to produce a productive individual no matter how advance the society is.
Application
This
entire thing is hard to do especially if I will be assigned in the remote
areas. But I have this kind of initiative person. If that would happen, I will
introduce first the basic digital sills. I can use my laptop and pocket wifi
just to show to them all the experiences I have during college. However, I am
also a kind of flexible person. I will expose them to various activities just
to enhance their higher thinking skills such as investigatory projects, research
paper, experimentations, but somehow involving IT-based projects such as
power-point presentation, video-audio recording and many more.
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