KNOWLEDGE BUILDING

Knowledge Building.

It involves creative, sustained work with ideas.   

Knowledge building classrooms are knowledge creating. This means that they are idea-centred, with students taking collective cognitive responsibility for advancing shared knowledge. Students learn to create knowledge by actually doing it. 

Knowledge building teachers/ students collaborate and engage in sustained explanation-seeking discourse, they design, perform, and refine experiments, they test hypotheses and build onto each other’s ideas, and they create artifacts and engage in design work of all kinds. Students’ knowledge building work is sustained by collective curiosity, opportunities to chart the course of their own learning, opportunistic collaboration and the excitement and motivation generated when students are exploring authentic, real world problems that they actually care about.

In knowledge creating classrooms, diverse ideas,

 collaboration among members and a collective

 commitment to advancing shared goals is essential for

 success.

In order to help the students build the knowledge, tasks need to be challenging, authentic, and multidisciplinary.

Collaboration around authentic tasks often takes place with peers and mentors within school as well as with family members and others in the real world outside of school.

Collaboration is a very powerful in knowledge building , take for instance in the CCTI course  through collaboration we have been able to build knowledge by contributing to the google drive documents, wiki and groups which has widened our personal knowledge.