65.011 - Knowledge-Building and Knowledge-Building Technology: Natural and Not-So-Natural Curiosity in Action

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

The Jackman Institute for Child Study (JICS) has for decades been a source of innovation and research in Knowledge Building, a high-profile research program whose emphasis on community knowledge creation has spread globally as pressure grows for education to promote innovation. A visit to JICS K-6 classrooms will provide opportunities to observe Knowledge Building-and Knowledge Forum software that helps sustain it-in action, supporting reading, writing, transliterate practices, meta-discourse and collective responsibility for idea improvement. The visit will end with a student panel; teachers and administrators will also be available to respond to audience questions.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research in Reading and Literacy

Visit Leader

• Marlene Scardamalia, University of Toronto

Chair

• Chriss Bogert, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab School

Participants

• Richard Messina, University of Toronto - OISE

• Carl Bereiter, University of Toronto