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A Brief History of Knowledge Building
Marlene Scardamalia; Carl Bereiter; Carl Bereiter
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 36, No. 1 (Dec 17, 2010)
Knowledge Building as a theoretical, pedagogical, and technological innovation focuses on the 21st century need to work creatively with knowledge. The team now advancing Knowledge Building spans multiple disciplines, sectors, and cultural contexts....
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Can Children Really Create Knowledge?
Carl Bereiter; Marlene Scardamalia; Marlene Scardamalia
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 36, No. 1 (Dec 17, 2010)
Can children genuinely create new knowledge, as opposed to merely carrying out activities that resemble those of mature scientists and innovators? The answer is yes, provided the comparison is not to works of genius but to standards that prevail in...
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Advancing Knowledge-Building Discourse through Judgments of Promising Ideas
Bodong Chen; Marlene Scardamalia; Carl Bereiter
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 10, No. 4 (December 2015) pp. 345–366
Evaluating promisingness of ideas is an important but underdeveloped aspect of knowledge building. The goal of this research was to examine the extent to which Grade 3 students could make promisingness judgments to facilitate knowledge-building...
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Beyond Learning Management Systems: Designing for Interprofessional Knowledge Building in the Health Sciences
Leila Lax; Marlene Scardamalia; Judy Watt-Watson; Judith Hunter; Carl Bereiter; Carl Bereiter
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 36, No. 1 (Dec 17, 2010)
This paper examines theoretical, pedagogical, and technological differences between two technologies that have been used in undergraduate interprofessional health sciences at the University of Toronto. One, a learning management system, WebCT 2.0,...
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Group-Level Formative Feedback and Metadiscourse
Monica Resendes; Marlene Scardamalia; Carl Bereiter; Bodong Chen; Cindy Halewood
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 10, No. 3 (September 2015) pp. 309–336
This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the...
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Understanding the nature of science and scientific progress: A theory-building approach
Maria Chuy; Marlene Scardamalia; Carl Bereiter; Fleur Prinsen; Monica Resendes; Richard Messina; Winifred Hunsburger; Chris Teplovs; Angela Chow; Angela Chow
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 36, No. 1 (Dec 17, 2010)
In 1993 Carey and Smith conjectured that the most promising way to boost students’ understanding of the nature of science is a “theory-building approach to teaching about inquiry.” The research reported here tested this conjecture by comparing...