WHAT DOES HIGHER ORDER THINKING (HOT) MEAN?

Few weeks ago, at the beginning of the capacitation course, I was grateful told about HOT. Basically HOT is what any researcher about whatever topic you can imagine would do to solve a problem or to improve an outcome.

First of all, we have to notice that a researcher doesn’t need to memorize the facts which he is working with. It means that memorizing is not included in HOT. But it doesn’t mean we cannot use our knowledge to take first ideas.

Secondly, any researcher tries to work with facts to understand what is going on. It means he puts the facts together, simplify them, manipulate them, etc. His target is to find out any pattern to get the rules which are controlling the facts. If we use adequate word we will say comprehension and application.

Thirdly, if we want to improve any game the only thing that we have to do is to play it. This is metacognition. It means we have to think about our thinking. Any researcher knows he has to check his work out to ensure the truth of his results. If we use adequate word we will say analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Finally, if we put the bold words in the correct order we will get the Bloom’s pyramid.
And so, if we want to teach our students to prepare them to the real world the best way to do that will be this. Perhaps our outcomes won't be students with deep knolowedge about almost everything but I'm sure they will be able to create new solutions for old problems.