higher-order thinking skills
n. 1. (education,
psychobabble) (also critical
thinking skills or HOTS) the latest educational
breakthrough, based on the premise that it is the educator’s job to awaken in a child the ability to think
rather than to teach the child how to learn. The so-called
lower-order thinking skills (LOTS), such as the ability to read, to write,
to do math, along with the acquisition of facts, are relegated to a backseat. This modern miracle of
learning is accomplished by the students spending hours brainstorming
together, cutting their intellectual teeth on the extensive, real-life experience they have gained through
television, movies, video games, popular music, etc.. The teacher is no longer
a teacher, but a facilitator.
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