A Study On Project Teaching Strategies Of Primary School Information Technology Curriculum For Creative Thinking Cultivation

The Compulsory Education IT Curriculum Standards(2022 Edition)put forward the core literacy of IT subjects,and its curriculum objectives have shifted from "skills operation" to "digital literacy and skills",especially emphasizing the cultivation of students’ innovation ability,and creative thinking As a key component of innovation ability,cultivating students’ creative thinking has become one of the important tasks of IT education.However,the abstract and complex nature of creative thinking makes it a difficult task for curriculum development.Therefore,this study explores the construction of scientific and effective project-based learning teaching strategies based on the current situation of creative thinking level and cultivation of elementary school students,with the purpose of creative thinking cultivation.First,based on the existing research,this study defines and summarizes the concepts and research status of creative thinking and project-based learning,and uses the interview method to investigate the current situation of cultivating creative thinking in Z elementary school.Students’ ability to think independently,investigate independently and practice creatively is not high.Secondly,based on the existing problems of elementary school IT teaching in cultivating creative thinking,this study combines constructivism theory,pragmatism education theory,"nearest development zone" theory and "four stages" of creative thinking based on the characteristics of subject curriculum,learning content and the characteristics of elementary school students’ creative thinking.This study is based on the characteristics of the subject curriculum,the learning contents and the characteristics of primary school students’ creative thinking.This study adopts a quasi-experimental research method,using project-based learning teaching strategies as the independent variable and students’ creative thinking level changes as the dependent variable,and selects students in two fifth grade classes of Z elementary school in Guilin,Guangxi as the research subjects to conduct a quasi-experimental study:First,teachers’ conscious use of project-based learning teaching strategies better promoted students’ creative thinking development.The project-based teaching comparison experiment revealed that the overall level of creative thinking of students in both the experimental and control classes was significantly improved compared to that before the teaching practice.At the same time,the experimental control results showed that the classroom performance and evaluation data of the students in the experimental class were better than those in the control class,and the project-based learning teaching strategy in the experimental class was more targeted to creative problem solving skills,and the students were able to actively use multiple ways to search,analyze,and judge information and work together to explore problem solutions,thus promoting the development of creative thinking.Therefore,in project-based teaching,teachers consciously use teaching strategies to promote the development of students’ creative thinking.Second,the reasonable use of different strategies in project-based teaching is more relevant to the development of creative thinking of elementary school students.The study found that the use of white space,collaborative learning,knowledge construction,motivation,and incentive strategies in project-based teaching can better promote the development of creative thinking in elementary school students,and accordingly suggested optimized teaching strategies for the development of creative thinking in elementary school students.This study summarizes effective strategies for cultivating elementary school students’ creative thinking based on project-based learning,which improves the current problem of insufficient creative thinking cultivation in IT education,broadens the application of project-based learning in IT classrooms to a certain extent,and provides practical references for elementary school IT teachers to cultivate elementary school students’ creative thinking in teaching.