Marlene Scardamalia
Outline of Talk
A Developmental Model of Knowledge Building
Knowledge building involves the creation of artifacts that advance
community knowledge. The Institute of Child Study (ICS) is a hub school
for knowledge building in education. In Robbie's role as director of
ICS, he visited its classrooms, grades 1-6. He reported seeing students
and teachers working with ideas in new ways. He thought they were
engaged in a surprisingly high level of educational innovation, and that
we should study this in detail and produce a book together--a
developmental model of knowledge building. Robbie and I never had a
chance to work on that book. I will try to characterize what I think he
saw, and why he thought this work might contribute to the developmental literature.
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