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The EdTech Revolution and Its Impact on Contemporary Education

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  The EdTech Revolution and Its Impact on Contemporary Education The emergence of educational technology (EdTech) represents a profound transformation in global teaching and learning practices. This ongoing shift involves the adoption of advanced digital tools designed to make education more personalized, interactive, and accessible. Moving beyond traditional uniform instructional structures, contemporary pedagogical approaches now incorporate adaptive, learner-centered methods that address the needs of diverse student populations (SchoolPosterPrinters, n.d.). This transition marks a significant point in the technological evolution of education, continuing a historical pattern in which digital innovations reshape how learning takes place. Modern advancements such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), blockchain , and data analytics have introduced a new phase that emphasizes participation, flexibility, and equitable access (OctoProctor, n.d.). ...

How to apply "HOTS" in Learning process and Assesment System

Implementation of "HOTS" in Learning and Assessment

a. HOTS in Learning Process

HOTS is a high order thinking skill. The implementation of "HOTS" in a learning process has to notice two main items, namely : stimulus and students' active participacient in learning. The stimulus is a device used to motivate, urge and stimulate the students to develop and grow their mind. The stimulus in the application of "HOTS" is very urgent, because by the existence of stimulus the students' thought  emrges to solve or find thing in the stimulus. The example of stimulus in the learning process.

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This picture can be used as a stimulus to develop, motive, grow or stimulate the students' thought in the activity of learning process. For example, the teacher asks for their students to write or tell their opinion about the beauty of nature in this picture.

To motivate or urge the students to think, express their view or thought  in the processs of teaching- learning activity is a part of implementation of HOTS.  In other words, the application of HOTS in the learning process the teacher should creat the stimulus. The most important, please give the chance the students to express their view or opinion. Dweck state that teacher with a growth mindset invest time and effort in their students and give students opportuniities to try, redo, and choose alternate approaches until they are successful. However, the teacher with a fixed mindset tend to label students based on their assumptions about how smart they think they are; they expect and foster succes for some students and hold lower expectations and offer lessser and mediocre task for others

The stimulus is an agent (such as an environmental change) that directly influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts (as by exciting a sensory organ or evoking muscular contraction or glandular secretion.

2. HOTS in Assessment.

There are some items that should be noticed  in making assessment with HOTS, namely:
1.  The questios of HOTS  are not difficult questions, but  the questions requires the replies with
      process of thingking.
2.   The Questions should use  the level of the fourth, fifth and sixth cognitive (C4, C5, C6)
3.  The replies of the questions are not clear and  available in the text

    

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