Reflection of ‘Computer as Mindtools for Engaging Learners in Critical Thinking’
The more and more integration of Technology in classroom setting and learning affects the more and more increasing responsibility towards teachers and Pedagogy. Today’s teachers need to use technology as a tool to help student read, write, apply critical thinking, synthesize information and put together in a structured way. They have to think about that how technology can be applied to the learning process. Pupils should use computer as a facilitate tool to enhance the effects of learning knowledge and cultivate their mind in thoughtful way.
Jonassen, chad Carr and Hsiu-Ping Yueh describes Mindtools as a ‘way of using a computer application program to engage learners in constructive, higher order, critical thinking, about the subjects they are studying.’ The learner enters an intellectual partnership with the computer and begins to access and interpret information and organize personal knowledge in new ways. Mindtools are computer based tools and learning environments which serve as extensions of the mind. For example, databases, spreadsheets, semantic network (concept map), computer conferencing, Hypermedia construction. As I believe in constructivism, it is the Mindtools that helps knowledge construction, in which learner organize and represent what they know and foster creativity and higher order thinking skill through collaboration. Constructivist learning environment provide a question, problem or project learner attempts to solve. In the perspective of Cognitive process, by using computer as Mindtools, learner becomes more self reliant thinker and problem solver and help learner transcend mental limitations. Actually learner provide intelligence not computer and learner compel to engage in deep thinking. In pedagogy, the semantic organization tool can be used to represent knowledge in different subjects which engages learner in critical thinking and creative thinking about subject.
Therefore, Mindtool represent all effective and efficient way of integrating computer in a school setting. They can be used across the school curricula to engage students in thinking deeply about the subject they are studying and they can act as an intellectual partner that facilitates knowledge construction and reflection by learners. Mindtool softwares are readily available and affordable and they can provide variety of scaffold.
According to “Gardner, individuals are creative in specific domain”. He suggested that providing students with ways to be creative allows them to find and solve problems and communicate ideas in various forms’. Therefore, by providing different Mindtools to the students, teachers let them enhance their creativity through hand eye coordination, mental rotation, mental mapping, spatial visualization.
References
Jonassen, D., Carr, C., & Yueh, H. (1998). Computers as mindtools for engaging learners in critical thinking: Tecktrends, 43(2), 24-32.
Jonassen, D. (2000). Computer as Mindtools for School: Engaging Critical Thinking.2nd edition.(Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall) www.chss.iup.edu/jrmcdono/ED455-methods/mindtools.htm.
Jonassen, D. (2000). Mindtools for Engaging Critical Thinking in Classroom. www.coe.missouri.edu/~jonassen/courses/mindtools/mindtools/html.
The more and more integration of Technology in classroom setting and learning affects the more and more increasing responsibility towards teachers and Pedagogy. Today’s teachers need to use technology as a tool to help student read, write, apply critical thinking, synthesize information and put together in a structured way. They have to think about that how technology can be applied to the learning process. Pupils should use computer as a facilitate tool to enhance the effects of learning knowledge and cultivate their mind in thoughtful way.
Jonassen, chad Carr and Hsiu-Ping Yueh describes Mindtools as a ‘way of using a computer application program to engage learners in constructive, higher order, critical thinking, about the subjects they are studying.’ The learner enters an intellectual partnership with the computer and begins to access and interpret information and organize personal knowledge in new ways. Mindtools are computer based tools and learning environments which serve as extensions of the mind. For example, databases, spreadsheets, semantic network (concept map), computer conferencing, Hypermedia construction. As I believe in constructivism, it is the Mindtools that helps knowledge construction, in which learner organize and represent what they know and foster creativity and higher order thinking skill through collaboration. Constructivist learning environment provide a question, problem or project learner attempts to solve. In the perspective of Cognitive process, by using computer as Mindtools, learner becomes more self reliant thinker and problem solver and help learner transcend mental limitations. Actually learner provide intelligence not computer and learner compel to engage in deep thinking. In pedagogy, the semantic organization tool can be used to represent knowledge in different subjects which engages learner in critical thinking and creative thinking about subject.
Therefore, Mindtool represent all effective and efficient way of integrating computer in a school setting. They can be used across the school curricula to engage students in thinking deeply about the subject they are studying and they can act as an intellectual partner that facilitates knowledge construction and reflection by learners. Mindtool softwares are readily available and affordable and they can provide variety of scaffold.
According to “Gardner, individuals are creative in specific domain”. He suggested that providing students with ways to be creative allows them to find and solve problems and communicate ideas in various forms’. Therefore, by providing different Mindtools to the students, teachers let them enhance their creativity through hand eye coordination, mental rotation, mental mapping, spatial visualization.
References
Jonassen, D., Carr, C., & Yueh, H. (1998). Computers as mindtools for engaging learners in critical thinking: Tecktrends, 43(2), 24-32.
Jonassen, D. (2000). Computer as Mindtools for School: Engaging Critical Thinking.2nd edition.(Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall) www.chss.iup.edu/jrmcdono/ED455-methods/mindtools.htm.
Jonassen, D. (2000). Mindtools for Engaging Critical Thinking in Classroom. www.coe.missouri.edu/~jonassen/courses/mindtools/mindtools/html.
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