Collaborative Knowledge Building with Applied Learning

Sharing by Soh WP @ SST Staff Conference 2015

Video clip: AFA2015 - The Playground by class S204 (2015)

• What is Collaborative Knowledge Building?  


• to deepen understanding, having students to construct their own knowledge can create a deeper learning process
• Inquiry learning or discovery leraning
• applicable to constructing new knowledge or building on existing knowledge 

Video clip: Shortened IDEO Shopping Cart Video

• Speaking to "experts" - who can be expert? not necessary a professional, but someone who can provide the knowledge in context. It could be classmates, friends from other cohorts or via online platform
•  Design Thinking Approach - emphasis: Empathy

Students need to be taught how to ask the right questions to do the necessary.

Co-Constructors of Learning

• Open-ended questions
• Deliverables - Group Journals (continuous formative assessment; physical models 
• ADMT: Tekong Kechil Island Project
• Reverse role: HA vs LA students - swapped "role of command'

• ICT to create a learning community

JS Timeline

URL: http://timeline.knightlab.com/

• Created by Knight Lab, Northwestern University
• "History": started as a tool for journalists
• easily shareable with students and easy to create a timeline that can be hosted on a webpage
• Note: Base on GoogleSheet document - ease of editing

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Notable Example - TIME: Nelson Mandela Timeline
URL: http://world.time.com/2013/12/05/nelson-mandelas-extraordinary-life-an-interactive-timeline/

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Features:
To accompany text, we can insert video and images

• Interactive
• Multimedia Content
• Students are better able to see the continuum of events and how they are connected to each other
• Self updating after publication

• Paragraph development: 
• Assess students ability to capture main ideas in a short summary of events
• Possibility of weaving in peer evaluation: Different groups of students can write on the same event and critique each others' versions
• Considering multiple perspectives
• Content Revision for pop-quiz 
• Intellectual Integrity
• Recap: Students can create a timeline that captures past lessons and content taught; hence increase student ownership
• Scheme of Work

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Hands-on

1. Download template into GoogleDrive
2. Click HERE for timeline