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HOTS was developed by Stanley Pogrow
Pogrow (1987) describes the HOTS curriculum:
"The HOTS program currently consists of daily lessons built around popular, commercially available
software that develops the following thinking skills:
The HOTS curriculum differs substantially from conventional approaches to using computers. Software is
not used to teach the above or any other specific skills. Rather, software is used as an opportunity to
create 'learning dramas': situations where students are highly motivated to complete a task and where
questions are developed to stimulate students to engage in the key thinking skills. These questions are not
necessarily related to the specific goal of the software, nor is the specific goal of the software important to
the learning process. The programs simply involve and intrigue the students.
GOAL
Strategy: HOTS
Higher Order Thinking Skills
Purpose:
Reading for Essential
Understanding
Metacognition
Developing and articulating strategies and testing
their effects in solving problems. Such articulation
both requires and develops sophisticated language
comprehension skills.
Inference
Building understanding of unknown concepts by
using information from known concepts. Again,
language skills help make the necessary
connec-
tions.
Decontextualization
Generalizing information from one context to an-
other. When poor learners encounter a new bit of
information, it is stored in memory as a concept
peculiar to the specific context in which it was
learned. Problem solving requires an ability to
link related ideas.
Combining and Synthesizing Information
(2015). L. King
. Based on the HOTS curriculum developed by Stanley Pogrow (1987). Central graphic, modified from
chatchaisurakram. Multicolor presentation template. iStock/thinkstock.
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