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Imane Nejjar
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Rabat)
UM5R
Presentation Outline:
A. Introduction
1. Nowadays students unmotivated to learn: Why?
2. A Mismatch between school practices & world realities
Why?
• Studying at school can be seen as a boring experience.
• “Nothing” exciting actually happens inside the
classroom.
I don’t get it! They make us learn Reading, Writing &
Arithmetic to prepare us for a world of Laptops ,
Smartphones, Tablets & iPads…!!!
ys
d a
wa
No
Nowadays!!!
Nowadays…
• It is thinking which is
OUTSIDE the box.
Thinking Outside the box
It is going beyond • It is relating the world of the
the prepared, classroom to the REAL world.
“canned”, • It is encouraging the students
“pre-packaged”, “to work locally and to think
“spoon-fed” globally.”
information
by the teacher.
B. Higher order thinking skills
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of
intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three
overlapping domains:
The Psychomotor
The Affective
The Cognitive
The Cognitive Domain
nowadays?
Why HOTS Nowadays?
Imane Nejjar
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Rabat)
UM5R