HOT+Questions

What are H O T Questions?
In a nutshell, Higher Order Thinking is thinking on a higher level than memorizing facts or telling something back to someone exactly the way the it was told to you. When a person memorizes and gives back the information without having to think about it, we call it rote memory. That's because it's much like a robot; it does what it's programmed to do, but it doesn't think for itself.

Higher Order Thinking, or HOT  for short, takes thinking to higher levels than just restating the facts. HOT requires that we do something with the facts. We must understand them, connect them to each other, categorize them, manipulate them, put them together in new or novel ways, and apply them as we seek new solutions to new problems.

Concepts can represent objects, activities, or living things. They may also represent properties such as color, texture, and size (for example, blue, smooth, and tiny), things that are abstract (for example, faith, hope, and charity), and relations (for example, brighter than and faster than).

Concepts come in a variety of forms, including concrete, abstract, verbal, nonverbal, and process.

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Now that you have an understanding of what a HOT question is ...go to the DISCUSSION PAGE and submit your HOT Questions under the appropriate Bloom categories!

Categories should be created for Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.