What types of skills and thought processes are considered higher-order?
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) include activities that require critical thinking, problem solving, creating, analyzing, evaluating, inferring, extrapolating, deducing, applying, and perspective taking. In these types of activities we really want kids to be applying their skills in different settings, in real-life situations, thinking outside the box, etc.
How does/might technology hinder and/or enhance cognition?
The concept that excites me the most is the idea of using technology to make learning fun. I am so inspired by the idea of turning my classroom into a game environment. If my students are having fun, they are going to learn better. I want to implement some sort of badge system as a form of reward and assessment. I think I can find a way to tie the badges into the different standards and objectives in my class. Technology is what our students know and love more than anything. If I can use what they know to teach them new things, they will feel a lot more confident in themselves. I am so excited to try something along these lines...
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