A Design for Development:

 The Legacy of Robbie Case
 
October 6 and 7, 2000
 
Croft Chapter House & Rm.179
University College
University of Toronto

 Marlene Scardamalia


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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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