Theme 1: Knowledge building for a Knowledge Society
Knowledge Building: A Trajectory
Getting
going with knowledge building in a public elementary school
Krista Dunlop, Trudy Miller, Diane Bestvater & Marnie Harris,
North Agincourt Junior Public School, ON, Canada
Richard Reeve & Marlene Scardamalia, IKIT, OISE/University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Krista Dunlop, Trudy Miller, Diane Bestvater & Marnie Harris,
North Agincourt Junior Public School, ON, Canada
Richard Reeve & Marlene Scardamalia, IKIT, OISE/University of Toronto, ON, Canada
This poster presents the common design issues that were dealt at a public elementary school in Toronto as three teachers and their students attempted to take a Knowledge Building approach to a set of standard units of study. All of the students were new to Knowledge Forum® as were two of the three teachers. The school’s population was predominantly ESL and was a French-Immersion school. Key aspects that are presented include the stress that was placed on creating a collaborative culture using the existing strategies in the school, the focus on literacy development and reading for understanding, and need for a strategy around modeling how to build-on and rise-above in the database. Teacher and student interviews along with illustrative entries from the database are used in this multimedia poster.