Knowledge+Building

=Knowledge Building=

From Wikipedia

Based on ideas from Scardamalia & Bereiter

Knowledge building refers to the process of creating new cognitive artifacts as a result of common goals, group discussions, and synthesis of ideas. These pursuits should advance the current understanding of individuals within a group, at a **level beyond their initial knowledge level**, and should be directed towards **advancing the understanding of what is known about that topic or idea**. The theory "encompasses the foundational learning, subskills, and socio-cognitive dynamics pursued in other approaches, along with the additional benefit of movement along the trajectory to mature education" [2]. Knowledge building can be considered as //deep// that involves making a **collective inquiry** into a specific topic, and coming to a **deeper understanding through interactive questioning, dialogue, and continuing improvement of ideas**. Knowledge building may be defined simply as "the creation, testing, and improvement of conceptual artifacts. It is not confined to education but applies to creative knowledge work of all kinds"
 * One of the hallmarks of Knowledge building is a sense of //we// superseding the sense of //I//, a feeling that the group is operating collectively**, and not just as an assemblage of individuals. A wide variety of discussion software can enable such an environment, one being, which supports many of the prerequisite processes of Knowledge building.

Principles of Knowledge building
12 principles of Knowledge Building as follows:
 * 1) //Real ideas and authentic problems.// In the classroom as a Knowledge building community, learners are concerned with understanding, based on their real problems in the real world. Focus on Problems rather than TOPICS
 * 2) //Improvable ideas.// Students' ideas are regarded as improvable objects.
 * 3) //Idea diversity.// In the classroom, the diversity of ideas raised by students is necessary.
 * 4) //Rise above.// Through a sustained improvement of ideas and understanding, students create higher level concepts.
 * 5) //Epistemic agency.// Students themselves find their way in order to advance.
 * 6) //Community knowledge, collective responsibility.// Students' contribution to improving their collective knowledge in the classroom is the primary purpose of the Knowledge building classroom.
 * 7) //Democratizing knowledge.// All individuals are invited to contribute to the knowledge advancement in the classroom.
 * 8) //Symmetric knowledge advancement.// A goal for Knowledge building communities is to have individuals and organisations actively working to provide a reciprocal advance of their knowledge.
 * 9) //Pervasive Knowledge building.// Students contribute to collective Knowledge building.
 * 10) //Constructive uses of authoritative sources.// All members, including the teacher, sustain inquiry as a natural approach to support their understanding.
 * 11) //Knowledge building discourse.// Students are engaged in discourse to share with each other, and to improve the knowledge advancement in the classroom.
 * 12) //Concurrent, embedded, and transformative assessment.// Students take a global view of their understanding, then decide how to approach their assessments. They create and engage in assessments in a variety of ways.

=Links:=

Knowledge Building: Theory Pedagogy and Technology

Knowledge Building Community Model