Resources to Support Higher Order Thinking
HIGHER ORDER THINKING:
Higher-order thinking requires students to manipulate information and ideas in ways that transform their meaning and implications, such as when students combine facts and ideas in order to synthesize, generalize, explain, hypothesize, or arrive at some conclusion or interpretation. Manipulating information and ideas through these processes allows students to solve problems and discover new (for them) meanings and understandings. When students engage in higher order thinking, an element of uncertainty is introduced, and instructional outcomes are not always predictable.
Resources
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From Questioning to Concept - Video
Tools
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30 Mindmapping Tools - Map, diagram, brainstorm, organize, collaborate
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Google Docs Video - Teachers and principals discuss using Google Docs in the classroom
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Reflective Journal through Blogs - How to use in classroom
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Wonderopolis - Questions to spark HOT
Student Samples
Teacher Videos
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Collaborative Thought to increase Critical Thinking (Could technology enhance this lesson?)
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Elementary - Higher Order Question Stems (Could technology enhance this lesson?)
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Historical Evidence - Collaboration and Higher Order Thinking (Could technology enhance this lesson?)