Technology to Teach Thinking Skills By Desri Fitriana (Journal 5)

Actually as a teacher a little bit hard to teach thinking skill to our students. Because to develop students’ thinking skill we as a teacher should prepare learning activities and technology tools to supports their thinking skill. When we applied learning activities to our students, we should consider about students’ cognitive itself. Better if we as a teacher applied activities which consist of cognitive skill (the students should think) and also movements. So, it likes discussion, jigsaw, micro-teaching and role-play, etc. Those activities can encourage our students to do cognitive skill and also movements. As a student in SSE, I have felt that those activities have a good impact for me to develop my thinking skill, because I not only know about the subject itself but I also have known about how I implement that subject in the real life.

            Actually when our students acquire the lesson we should consider how are they remember it, whether it is short term or long term. Better if we make our lesson to long term memory in their concept. Basically, students more remember about something which meaningful to them rather than visual or auditory. So that is why Bloom made a Bloom’s Taxonomy about students’ steps acquires the lesson.

            In SSE sometimes we called Low Order Thinking Skill (LOTS) and High Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) for represent Bloom’s Taxonomy. LOTS it likes a recall, memorizing, explaining and etc. HOTS more higher than LOTS, because in HOTS we expected to apply our knowledge, combining ideas and develop our knowledge. So that is why in SSE we focused on HOTS approach. Unfortunately, most of senior high school tends to used LOTS for their examination, not HOTS. The types of questions in Senior High School focused on remembering not applying.