Thinking skills are a key feature of learning. These brilliant titles in the series will help you develop intellectual skills in children, such as reasoning and enquiry, information processing, creative thinking and evaluation skills.
The ability to think effectively and to use ICT competently are two crucial 21st century skills.
Thinking Skills ICT is specifically designed to make explicit each of the thinking skills that will be utilised when pupils carry out the various ICT activities.
The five main thinking skills, namely:
- Information Processing
- Enquiry
- Reasoning
- Creative Thinking
- Evaluation
will be integrated into the five ICT units:
- Finding and sorting things out
- Developing ideas through the available data
- Using data and making things happen
- Sharing information and
- Creating, reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses.
Each ICT activity will appear under the relevant Thinking Skills heading, thereby providing teachers with a straightforward means of planning for intended outcomes and recording achievement.
