REPORT 2:
Literature Review in Thinking Skills,
Technology and Learning
A Report for Futurelab
Rupert Wegerif, School of Education
Open University
AIMS AND PLAN
The purpose of this report is:
• to clarify what is meant by
thinking skills and their relationship
to technology
• to identify the role of ICT
in promoting thinking skills
• to produce guidelines for the
development of digital learning
resources to support the teaching
and learning of thinking skills
• to evaluate the general direction of
research in this area and how this
should inform educational practice. |
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The use of new technologies is often linked to the development of thinking skills or ‘higher order thinking’. This review will explore some of the claims that have been made in this area and summarise the useful findings that emerge from research. There is a range of different approaches to understanding thinking skills and learning, each one of which has an impact on how the relationship between thinking skills and technology is conceptualised. The first part of the review explores the literature about teaching thinking skills and their relationship to technology. The second part focuses more on technology, exploring claims that have been made about the relationship of information and communications technologies to the development of thinking skills. |
This report has been designed to enable both rapid identification
of the key findings and in-depth exploration of the literature.
The key findings and implications of the report are presented within the Executive Summary and Implications Sections. The main body of the review enables readers to explore in more detail the background to these headline issues.
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CONTENTS:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SECTION 1
TERMS AND CONTEXT
SECTION 2
CAN WE TEACH
THINKING SKILLS?
SECTION 3
TEACHING THINKING
SKILLS WITH
TECHNOLOGY
SECTION 4
IMPLICATIONS FOR
PRACTICE, CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT AND
THE DESIGN OF
LEARNING RESOURCES
GLOSSARY
INTERNET LINKS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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