The Big Six Skills

The Big Six Skills seem essential to using ICT's in the classroom. They are a simple framework, a set of questions to which students can make clear, complex ideas or problems. They also take into account the evaluation or reflection stage which is so important for learning. As a teacher I could take the Big Six questions and help students apply these as a lifelong skill. I want my students to have some lifelong skills which have been embedded in their psyche and which they can use daily for their problems and higher order thinking needs. These are simple and easy for them to remember. I shall make up a simple poem or acronym for them to remember these processes. For example TIL Use ( could be the start of something easy for them to remember). T - task definition, I - information seeking, L - locate information, U - use information, S - synthesise information, and E - evaluate information. They could be told that Til Use means that every time they have to buy something throughout life, they could use this framework to make their decisions and thus save themselves money for the Till.