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Learning From The Knowledge Builders: Student Perspectives On The Challenges Of Classroom Knowledge Building Communities, Katerine Bielaczyc
Learning From The Knowledge Builders: Student Perspectives On The Challenges Of Classroom Knowledge Building Communities, Katerine Bielaczyc
Education
How do students make sense of the change process from more traditional learning environments to a Knowledge Building Community classroom (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2006)? What challenges do they identify in their own participation and the development of the collective as a knowledge building community? This research followed a team of middle school students and teachers over the course of two years. Student interviews focused on the community s knowledge work in Knowledge Forum and their development as knowledge builders. Students identified structures that both supported and challenged student socialization into knowledge building communities. The research also examines how students experiences …
Infrastructuring For Knowledge Building: Advancing A Framework For Sustained Innovation, Shiri Kashi, Yotam Hod, Alwyn Vwen Yen Lee, Guangji Yuan, Etan Cohene, Katerine Bielaczyc, Bodong Chen, Jianwei Zhang
Infrastructuring For Knowledge Building: Advancing A Framework For Sustained Innovation, Shiri Kashi, Yotam Hod, Alwyn Vwen Yen Lee, Guangji Yuan, Etan Cohene, Katerine Bielaczyc, Bodong Chen, Jianwei Zhang
Education
Despite the wide implementations and extensive research base that has developed on knowledge building communities, continued efforts are required to address the challenges of implementing innovations in diverse contexts as well as sustaining them over time. In this paper, we draw on the idea of infrastructuring as an emergent, multilevel approach that can shed new light on ways to do this. After defining the notion of infrastructuring and showing its unique potential to sustain knowledge building, we examine three cases of infrastructuring within the context of efforts to grow knowledge building innovations in existing educational ecologies. This paper offers some …