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Knowledge Building Centers with David Loertscher. Everyone please log on to: https:// sites.google.com/site/paknowledgebuildingcenters /. Assumptions. Technology has changed everything; particularly Web 2.0 tools and cloud computing opportunities Students have changed - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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KNOWLEDGE BUILDING CENTERS WITH DAVID LOERTSCHER
Everyone please log on to:
https://sites.google.com/site/paknowledgebuildingcenters/
Assumptions
Technology has changed everything; particularly Web 2.0 tools and cloud computing opportunities
Students have changed Education must change to preparing kids
and teens for excellence; not minimums Libraries and computer labs must
change
Problem
Specialists in the school have not often been in the center of teaching and learning
How can this change?
Assumption: teacher librarians and teacher technologists along with other specialists in the school have much to contribute to the classroom and to the quality of learning experiences.
A Simple Solution:
Knowledge Building Centers: Environments Where Collaboration is a Natural
Sample KBC – on your screens
KBC is Simple
A KBC is simple to construct on a variety of technologies: Google Sites Moodle blog Wiki etc.
The Structure of the KBC Makes Collaboration a Natural
I feel like helping Inviting Engaging Give and take
Specialists are at the Center of Teaching and Learning
Personal Expertise and Collaborative Intelligence
KBC Characteristic
The project promotes mastery of 21st Century Skills that in turn drive deep understanding
KBC Characteristic
Sound Instructional designs are used: Understanding by Design Think models (Loertscher, Koechlin, Zwaan) Active Inquiry Differentiation Note: Direct teaching of prescribed basic
content does not usually work in a KBC
KBC Characteristic
The KBC is available to students and adults anywhere, at any time, and on any preferred device.
KBC Uses
Single-class explorations Cross-class inquiry Cross-district, community, state, world
inquiry School projects/initiatives Professional development Professional learning communities
KBCs Always End with a Big Think Metacognitive Reflection What I know What we know How I learn How we learn So what? What’s next
Let’s Experience a KBC Together You are all looking at our KBC on your
computers… Problem: What are 21st Century Skills Part one is finished for you – go to the
workspace spreadsheet. Table recorders log in: [email protected] …
etc.; password: knowledge Your task as a Table: Synthesize a list of 21st
Century Skills from all the documents. You have ten minutes… and probably won’t
finish
Our Big Think (see Reflection Tab) http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/21stC
entrySkills
Post two responses on the wall.
Thanks for participating.
Keep in Touch: [email protected]