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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