1. Welcome to Knowledge-Building Teacher Network

2. What is the “Knowledge Building Teacher Professional Development Network” (KBTN)?
Students engaging in inquiry in knowledge-building communities for 21st century learning supported by technology
-Addresses goals of educational reforms
Teacher Professional
Development Network (community)
A group of EMB (Ministry) seconded teachers working together mentoring new teachers on using knowledge building, supported with knowledge building theory, pedagogy & technology
--To sustain and to scale up innovations & good practice in schools

3. Empowering communities and transforming learning through technology
Knowledge building communities – contribution and added value to community mediated by progressive inquiry and discourse - analogous to scientific communities
Learning for 21st century – three metaphors of learning (acquisition, acculturation & knowledge creation)
Technology - Knowledge Forum with suite of assessment tools and data mining
Different aspects are intersecting and intertwined

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5. Heading Into Deep Water
“Mom and Pop” as Salomon once put it.

6. Overview What is knowledge building? What about Knowledge Forum 4.7?
How to conduct curriculum Innovation in School?
How to plan your curriculum for Knowledge Building?

7. Some Benefits of knowledge building
Literacy
Argumentation, Metacognition, questions, explanation, theories
Dialogical thinking .. Working with others
Values

8. What is the difference between knowledge
building and online learning?
Big blackboard? Big File?

9. Creation and improvement of ideas and knowledge collectively
Communities of learners…scientists

10. Knowledge Building Principles
1) Agency (Self-learning, inquiry)
2) Community Knowledge (Collaborative learning)
3) Rise Above (Deepening)
4) Improvable Ideas (Sustained efforts)
5) Reflective assessment

11. Curriculum Design – Principles

12. Principles & Curriculum Design for KB (1)
Component 1 – How to develop collaborative culture in classroom
Agency/Community Knowledge
Students working with each other
Putting out ideas to public for improvement- group work, inquiry-based learning, jig-saw, knowledge-building ‘walls’etc

14. Principles & Curriculum Design for KB (2)
Component 2 – How to Start collaborative Inquiry Using Knowledge Forum
Epistemic Agency….Community Knowledge
Design and integrate curriculum with knowledge-building
- Big ideas…Key problems…Inquiry-based…information search
Scaffolds
Design of views; Student grouping
Other questions
- Should I set a question; how to set a question? how to encourage students to contribute…

15. Scaffolds (thinking prompts)
Theory Building
I need to understand
My theory
New Information
A better theory
This theory cannot explain
Putting our knowledge together
Argumentation
My standpoint
Reason
Elaboration
Evidence
Examples
Interpretation
Rebuttal
Synthesis

16. Scaffolds for
New Learning/Conceptual Change ?
English Language?
Project Learning?

18. Teacher’s Instructions in each discussion view

19. Design for Knowledge Building (3)
Component Three – How to deepen discussion?
Rise Above
KB Talk - Integrate knowledge building with class activity (e.g., discuss KF work in class; class activity in KF)
Knowledge Management
View maintenance
Students as experts
Rise above…. Summary notes.. New views etc.
Focus on progress and idea improvement

20. Debate on Shifting Cultivation

21. View’s under student’s maintenance

22. Design for knowledge building (4)
Component Four – How to Assess Student’s Understanding?
Reflective Assessment
Using Assessment to scaffold and foster knowledge building
Tools (Applets, journals, rubrics, portfolio etc.)
Individual to Collective
How to teach well without teaching?
How to assess well without over-assessing?

23. Designing a Curriculum Unit
Collaborative learning
Inquiry
Use of scaffolds
KF function
Deepening discourse
Continuous Assessment

24. Portfolio Instructions posed by teacher