Thinking skills and ICT

COMPUTER IN EDUCATION
Siti Aishah Ismail (A151386)
Nur Hasmirah Hassan (A151385)
Nur Alia Syahida Nik Hasbullah (A151349)
Nur Izzati Binti Shahidan (A138511)

What is ICT ?????

stands for Information and Communication
Technologies
refers to technologies that provide access
through telecommunications
focus on communication services such as
internet, smartphones and wireless network.

What are the benefits of ICT ???

In Education :
helps the students to do their assignments
helps to reduce social gaps between students
make teaching process more efficient and fun
helps students and teachers to interact easier.
increase students teamworks and cooperation
minimized gender differences in academic achievement
teachers can easily explain complex instructions and ensure students'
comprehension.
In Business :
- make the interaction easier
- offer faster response to the customers
- helps project team to collaborate effectively (video conferencing, webconferencing)
- makes the financial management more effective and easier.

How ICT and Thinking skills related

???

National Curriculum Thinking Skills

> Information processing
> Reasoning
> Enquiry
> Creative thinking
> Evaluation

Role of ICT in developing thinking skills

1. Decision making and analyzing- choose reliable article etc
2. Microworld (interactive exploratory environment)- allow to direct own
learning and discoveries plus enable pupils to hypothesise and
experiment with feedback in the discussion with peers.
eg: Thinker Tools (software for teaching and learning, esp Physics
online
1. Communication : emails / databases / networked classrooms
2. Enhance motivation and academic abilities.
ex: digital textbook,e-learning

http://archive.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/lit_reviews/Thinking_Skills_Review.pdf

How does ICT bring harm to our

thinking skills
With the advancement of technology, it is not impossible that technology could bring harm to our critical
thinking. This is due to the fact that most students nowadays are more exposed to visual media rather than on
how to enhance their thinking skills from reading and imagination.
What are visual media?
Visual media are a word that are used to express the usage designated sources such as playing video games,
television and film.
Students are too much exposed with visual media only developed their visual skills but not their thinking
skills. There differences between them. Visual skills are more focused on enhancing the students visual and
hearing but does not involve in enhancing their brain to think more critically.

Why does it bring harm to our critical thinking?

Now they are lacked of knowledge in thinking critically.

These kind of methods does not enhances their thinking skills as much as reading does. For what we are learning
now, students who read a lot are declining. Thus, they could not process their imagination wider.
They have just able to process what has been shown to them instead on trying to figure about it on their own.
They are lack with the ability to think on their own and beyond of their thoughts. What they have listened and
watched are the only things that they could process.
This causes them to have less ability in problem solving, creative thing and decision making.

How to solve this Problems?

-Well, parents should play a big roles in this matter. They should encourage their children to read more books and do more
activities that involving creative thinking such as painting or drawing. This kind of things are able to help them to think out of the
box and figure things on their own. Instead of just absorbing what is given to them.

-Teachers as well should encourage their students to do an online presentation instead of just letting them do whatever they
want to do during their computer class. They should get exposed to much harder tasks that involve them to think critically. Give
them task that require them to use different skills in order to solve it for example creating videos and and making a drama out of
it, or maybe encourage them to do online mind map notes and ask them to do it individually.