Week 2

Reading: Skills for the 21st C: Teaching higher order thinking (Robyn Collins)
Key messages:

• Harvard University developed Project Zero, a set of steps for exploring artworks that may be applied to other curriculum areas. They are exploring viewpoints, reasoning, questioning and investigating, observing and describing, comparing and connecting, and finding complexity.
• Bloom's Taxonomy's cognitive domain provides a framework for teachers to promote higher order thinking through 5 steps:

1. specifically teach language and concepts of higher order thinking
2. plan discussion time to tap into higher order thinking skills
3. explicitly teach subject concepts
4. provide scaffolding
5. consciously teach to encourage higher order thinking

Technologies Curriculum Aims and Rationale

Key Words	In Practice
Enterprising individuals
Solutions
Complex challenges
Contribute
Sustainable
Design thinking
Authentic needs
Computational thinking
Information systems
Digital solutions
Traditional, contemporary, emerging
Innovative
Practical nature
Critical and creative thinking
Interrelationships
Planning and reviewing processes to realise ideas
Experimentation
Problem-solving
Prototyping
Evaluation
Critical appreciation
Equity, ethics, personal, social values
Desirable sustainable patterns of living
Preferred futures
Investigate
Design
Plan
Manage
Create
Evaluate