2.4 Higher Order Thinking Skills
Candidates model and facilitate the effective use of digital tools and resources to support and enhance higher order thinking skills (e.g., analyze, evaluate, and create); processes (e.g., problem-solving, decision-making); and mental habits of mind (e.g., critical thinking, creative thinking, metacognition, self-regulation, and reflection).
Artifact: Multimedia Design Project and Web Quest
Reflection:
Standard 2.4 requires candidates to model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to engage students in authentic learning experiences. This artifact is a Multimedia Design project completed for the Multimedia and Web Design course. This artifact required me to create a web quest that incorporated higher order thinking skills and a variety of media. I created the webquest around real world applications of modeling with linear and exponential equations. Specifically, students were asked to model an environmental issue with a linear or exponential function and then create a pamphlet, video, or PowerPoint convincing others why this is an important issue and what actions should be taken to improve the situation.
This webquest shows how I am able to model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support higher order thinking skills, processes, and mental habits of mind because I designed an online webquest that relied on students using a variety of digital tools to complete. The tools required were the Quantitative Environmental Learning Project site, various YouTube videos, graphing calculators, cameras, PowerPoint, and Word. While the Quantitative Environmental Learning Project site had some old data, students found it easier to find and use that searching on their own. This webquest was done in the computer lab which required constant facilitation of digital tools. As with many webquests and projects it did take longer than the three days originally allotted. This webquest also required students to use higher order thinking skills to create an argument for improving their chosen environmental issue based on their mathematical discoveries and research.
By completing this artifact, I learned that online research can inform mathematical learning and provide a context for the content standards students need to learn. I also learned how to design an easy to follow online learning environment. To improve on this webquest, I would collaborate with the environmental science teacher at my school to incorporate those standards into the project as well.
Standard 2.4 requires candidates to model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to engage students in authentic learning experiences. This artifact is a Multimedia Design project completed for the Multimedia and Web Design course. This artifact required me to create a web quest that incorporated higher order thinking skills and a variety of media. I created the webquest around real world applications of modeling with linear and exponential equations. Specifically, students were asked to model an environmental issue with a linear or exponential function and then create a pamphlet, video, or PowerPoint convincing others why this is an important issue and what actions should be taken to improve the situation.
This webquest shows how I am able to model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support higher order thinking skills, processes, and mental habits of mind because I designed an online webquest that relied on students using a variety of digital tools to complete. The tools required were the Quantitative Environmental Learning Project site, various YouTube videos, graphing calculators, cameras, PowerPoint, and Word. While the Quantitative Environmental Learning Project site had some old data, students found it easier to find and use that searching on their own. This webquest was done in the computer lab which required constant facilitation of digital tools. As with many webquests and projects it did take longer than the three days originally allotted. This webquest also required students to use higher order thinking skills to create an argument for improving their chosen environmental issue based on their mathematical discoveries and research.
By completing this artifact, I learned that online research can inform mathematical learning and provide a context for the content standards students need to learn. I also learned how to design an easy to follow online learning environment. To improve on this webquest, I would collaborate with the environmental science teacher at my school to incorporate those standards into the project as well.