A topic in Educational Technology 2

1. Higher Thinking Skills
The I.T Based Projects

2. STUDENTS CAN ALSO BE ASSIGNED TO
CREATE THEIR SOFTWARE MATERIALS. OF
COURSE, THERE ARE AVAILABLE SOFTWARE
SUCH AS CREATIVE WRITER (BY MICROSOFT)
ON WRITING, KID WORK DELUXE( BY
DAVIDSON) ON DRAWING AND PAINTING, AND
MEDIA WEAVE( BY HUMANITIES SOFTWARE)
ON MULTIMEDIA.

3. 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.

4. Creativity is said to combine three kinds
of skills/abilities:
a. Analyzing
distinguishing similarities and differences
or seeing the project as a problem to be
solved.

5. b. Synthesizing
making spontaneous connections among
ideas, thus generating interesting or new
ideas.

6. c. Promoting
 selling of new ideas to allow the
public to test the ideas themselves.