A Development of Higher-order Thinking: Important Intellectual Abilities for The New Normal

Abstract

The New Normal, which is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leads to decrease of physical communication and increase of online communication by using technology causing the constant influx of information that contains facts and opinions. Higher-order thinking is an intellectual abilities of considering and analyzing information from various sources and then those information are used to solve problems or in other situations. When thought process habitually takes place in doing things and those behaviors become as characters and individual attitudes, it would affect the way of life and coexistence in society. Therefore, a development of higher-order thinking is an important abilities for people in the society of the New Normal that there is abundance of information since thinking is crucial for selecting and determining. This article includes the importance of higher-order thinking in the New Normal Era, the categories of higher-order thinking, the development of higher-order thinking, the strategies of learning management for developing higher-order thinking skills, learning management approaches for developing higher-order thinking skills, and the examples of learning management for developing higher-order thinking skills relating to the New Normal.