Using a Technology-Enriched Environment to Improve Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Hopson, Michael; Simms, Richard L.; Knezek, Gerald

doi:10.1080/15391523.2001.10782338

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“…Moreover, students employ large mental abilities through the designing by computers as a platform to pursue the creative design. This would demand them to have long attention span, synthesize the elements of the design, establish connections between these elements, build comparisons, consider and try other ways of design, and generate large number of ideas during the electronic designing as demonstrated by Hopson (1998). Such process will trigger students' creative thinking and enhance them to come out with original, flexible, and fluent productions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study represents some new results about the nature of creativity associated with the computer and educational technology practiced in the learning environment and the use of computer-enhanced study methods in the development of creative thinking. Hopson (1998) investigated the effects of students' attitudes towards the use of a computer on promoting their creative thinking through high-order thinking skills. His results revealed that the learning environment enhanced by computer technology was important and had positive impact on students, in terms of developing creative thinking and advanced thinking skills to students, the study showed that using computers affects positively students' creativity and their attitudes towards computers.…”

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Enhancing Creative Thinking through Designing Electronic Slides

Mokaram¹,

Al-Shabatat²,

Fong³

et al. 2011

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During the shifting of teaching and learning methods using computer technologies, much emphasis was paid on the knowledge content more than the thinking skills. Thus, this study investigated the effects of a computer application, namely, designing electronic slides on the development of creative thinking skills of a sample of undergraduate students. A total number of 50 subjects, 25 in an experimental group and 25 in a control group were selected and a design of pre and post-test with an experimental and a control group was employed in this study. Torrance Test for creative thinking (TTCT) form (A) was applied on both groups. The experimental group was taught to design electronic instructional slides using Microsoft PowerPoint. After six weeks, both groups were given the TTCT form (A) again. Using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), the findings revealed significant differences between the two groups favoring the experimental group over the control in the total creative thinking scores. Designing electronic slides can enhance the creative thinking skills for students, and the expansion of using computer applications in promoting thinking and learning skills is recommended.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Enhancing Creative Thinking through Designing Electronic Slides

Mokaram¹,

Al-Shabatat²,

Fong³

et al. 2011

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“…In the current study, both teachers used PollEveryWhere as a real-time voting system to encourage students to be engaged with their learning process. However, teacher B walked around the theatre encouraging students to be involved in the discussion process, while in the case of the teacher A thought that a technology-enriched classroom could assist students to develop Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (Hopson et al 2001). This led students from group B to state that the teacher B encouraged them to Bthink out loud^in class in order to reflect on how they arrived at answers.…”

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Traditional and flipped classroom approaches delivered by two different teachers: the student perspective

2017

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The aim of this investigation was for students to express their views on teaching approaches delivered by two teachers under the perspectives of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) development, their preferences on learning material and learning activities. First year psychology students followed both the traditional and a flipped classroom approach delivered by two different teachers. One teacher introduced them to social and the other to clinical psychology. 81 students evaluated their experience on social psychology and 119 students on clinical psychology. Although all students had similar preferences on following either the traditional or the flipped classroom approach in both subject domains, a significant difference in students' views related to the teachers' contribution to teaching approach, students' HOTS development and the choice of learning material was observed. This investigation concluded the importance of the intricate relationship between the choice of learning material and activities, and the teacher's contribution to the flipped classroom approach and their expectation/behaviour toward technology.

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“…Consequently, new projects have already been launched this year. As was concluded in a study by Hopson, Simms and Knezek (2001), the positive effects of using technologies in teaching lead to learners' desire to continue using those technologies, ever after a project is completed.…”

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Analysis of e-textbooks: development, use and availability on the slovenian Market

Elesini¹,

Design²,

Tomažin³

2018

J. Graph. Eng. Des.

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Through several projects in Slovenia, e-learning materials have been developed over the last decade, with some primary and secondary schools already using them successfully in their educational processes for several years. The objectives of this research were to analyse the development of e-learning materials, in particular the process of creating e-textbooks, to identify experiences in the use of e-learning materials and to determine their availability on the market. In order to understand the development process, our research involved the creation of i-textbooks. The problems we encountered during the creation of i-textbooks are presented in this article. The results showed that teachers are satisfied with the use of previously developed e-learning materials. They also agreed that traditional textbooks cannot be replaced completely by e-textbooks. However, they do represent an important motivation tool that assists them in facilitating the transfer of knowledge and helps learners to better understand and learn the contents of different subjects. The e-learning materials present on the Slovenian market are freely accessible or require payment, depending on the editor. A great deal of e-learning materials is also inactive, as was emphasised in our research.

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Using a Technology-Enriched Environment to Improve Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Cited by 165 publications

References 8 publications

Enhancing Creative Thinking through Designing Electronic Slides

Enhancing Creative Thinking through Designing Electronic Slides

Traditional and flipped classroom approaches delivered by two different teachers: the student perspective

Analysis of e-textbooks: development, use and availability on the slovenian Market

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