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