Today, students are obliged in the classroom to work flexible, analytical and resourceful in everything they do. In this lesson, the learners should encourage themselves to apply their knowledge into an IT higher thinking skills and creativity.

                According to Lucido (2007), Higher Level learning Outcomes is based into ten frameworks. The following frameworks are given”

FIGURE 1 – THINKING SKILLS FRAMEWORK

                This framework shows the teacher’s effort to understand the learner’s higher thinking skills. Given those complex thinking skills, the modern day teacher can now be guided on his goal to help student achieve higher level thinking skills and creativity beyond the ordinary benchmark of the student’s passing, even excelling achievement tests. Given the fact that the ordinary classroom is awfully lacking in instructional toolkits to bring students to the higher domains of learning and achieving, the project method is suggested. 

                Project method is an example of higher learning outcomes because the students work on projects with strength, involvedness, length and relevance to the real world. Another example of project method is Dewey project method; this new method involves the students in the active creation of information. It allows the students to use their reflective thinking on topics that they may think of.

                To understand this lesson better, the following IT-based projects are given:
  1.  Resource-based projects – the teacher steps out of the traditional role of being a content expert and information provider. The students are required to use the available textbooks and curriculum materials.

    2. Simple Creation – the students are assigned to create their software materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials.
     3. Guided hyper-media projects – this project can be used in two different ways like instructive tool and communication tool.  Instructive tool is used during lecture or discussion like power-point presentation while communication tool is used when the students do a multimedia presentation (with text, graphs, photos, audio and etc.).
     4. Web-based projects – students can be made to create and post WebPages on a given topic.

REFLECTION:

     As an instructor, a good example of project method is resource-based project because the students need to use textbooks or any reading materials for their final requirement. However, if your topic is not merely on lecture discussion, you can use any of the three IT-based projects. The only difference is the availability of the resources and the subject course.