Webinar Remote Teaching | Collaborative Knowledge Building with Esther Tan | 7 July

Collaborative learning is neither a mechanism nor a method, but rather a situation where particular forms of interaction among the individuals in the group are expected to occur (Dillenbourg, 1999). The desired meaningful discourse in collaborative learning does not occur by default because students are assigned work groups. To ensure certain kinds of cognitive processes can be activated in collaborative learning, lesson design and facilitation is instrumental.

Knowledge building (KB) is a pedagogical approach to foster collaborative knowledge co-construction, co-creation and knowledge advancement. It has its theoretical premises in deep constructivism. Knowledge-building pedagogy places the main emphasis on knowledge contributions to the progress of knowledge-building discourse. In brief, knowledge is improvable and socially co-constructed. The four core principles of KB are idea generation, idea connection, idea advancement and rise above. In this webinar, you will learn how to design and implement KB activities based on the four core KB principles and transform your ‘classroom’ into knowledge building communities.

You will also learn how students can document and track the trajectory of knowledge products (from idea generation to rise above) in a web-based platform.

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