TY - GEN
T1 - Improving Logical Thinking Skills for SW Students Through Course of Introductory Information Technology
AU - Cheong, Ngai
AU - Ho, Kachong
AU - Yung, Yaukong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/12/16
Y1 - 2022/12/16
N2 - With the development of Information Technology (IT), it not only has a significant impact and requirement on the field of industrial, but also on humanities area, such as cultivation of thinking mode in social science. The logical thinking skills for the Social Work (SW) students are essential tool for their learning, even the development of their career in the future. Meanwhile, there is also a problem of "insufficient computer skills and interest"for the SW students. This paper describes a teaching practice for improving the logical thinking skills of SW students at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU). The SW students are required to learn the basic concepts of IT, through the course of Introductory Information Technology (IIT) provided by MPU. In order to cultivate their logical thinking ability, the outline of IIT includes the introduction to evolution of computer and the mind map from three directions, instead of directly carried out the social thinking. The paper also illustrates these training methods that has positive influence in improving their abilities of logical thinking.
AB - With the development of Information Technology (IT), it not only has a significant impact and requirement on the field of industrial, but also on humanities area, such as cultivation of thinking mode in social science. The logical thinking skills for the Social Work (SW) students are essential tool for their learning, even the development of their career in the future. Meanwhile, there is also a problem of "insufficient computer skills and interest"for the SW students. This paper describes a teaching practice for improving the logical thinking skills of SW students at the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU). The SW students are required to learn the basic concepts of IT, through the course of Introductory Information Technology (IIT) provided by MPU. In order to cultivate their logical thinking ability, the outline of IIT includes the introduction to evolution of computer and the mind map from three directions, instead of directly carried out the social thinking. The paper also illustrates these training methods that has positive influence in improving their abilities of logical thinking.
KW - Curriculum design
KW - Introductory information technology
KW - Logical thinking
KW - Mind map
KW - Social Work students
KW - Social thinking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159703943&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3582580.3582631
DO - 10.1145/3582580.3582631
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85159703943
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 292
EP - 297
BT - Proceedings of ICETM 2022 - 2022 5th International Conference on Education Technology Management
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 5th International Conference on Education Technology Management, ICETM 2022
Y2 - 16 December 2022 through 18 December 2022
ER -