Tele-collaboration and Project-based Learning To Reorient Teacher Education Towards EFA and ESD 3-5 October 2013 Bangkok, Thailand Session 2: Knowledge Construction ICT in Education, UNESCO Bangkok Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

What is knowledge construction?

Click to edit Master title style Knowledge construction activities require students to generate ideas and understandings that are new to them. Students can do this through interpretation, analysis, synthesis, or evaluation.

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Does your PBL require knowledge construction?

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1. Is it knowledge construction? The learning activity REQUIRES students to construct knowledge by interpreting, analysing, synthesizing, or evaluating information or ideas.

Click to edit Master title style 1. Is it knowledge construction? Students google information about local activities to help the environment and analyse it to decide what else could be done. Students google information about local activities to help the environment and give a presentation to describe what they found.

Click to edit Master title style 2. Is KC the main requirement? Students earn ( )% of their grade for finding information and ( )% for analysing what they find.

Click to edit Master title style 3. Are students required to apply their knowledge? Students must apply their knowledge when they use the knowledge they have constructed to support another knowledge construction task in a new context.

Click to edit Master title style 3. Are students required to apply their knowledge? Example: Students in language class Learning how to write academic essay Reposition the content for a newspaper article for general public

Click to edit Master title style 3. Are students required to apply their knowledge? Students design and execute a procedure for testing the qualities of the tap water at their school. Once they have accurate data, they use that information to determine which water filtration system would be most appropriate for the school. Students design and execute a procedure for testing the qualities of the tap water at their school. They test the water and redesign the procedure iteratively until they have accurate data.

Click to edit Master title style 4. Is activity interdisciplinary? Students in science class write persuasive letters to an environmental organization about the results of their experiment. A: Educators grade students on the quality of their data. B: Educators grade students on the quality of their data AND on their writing skills.

Click to edit Master title style 4. Is activity interdisciplinary? Students in physics use ICT to present their work to the class. Use of ICT as a tool in physics class is not considered interdisciplinary.

Activity 1: Let’s evaluate sample lessons

Click to edit Master title style House on Mango Street Individual work!!! Download and open the lesson plan from EC website Read the lesson plan carefully and see which level this lesson can reach Time: 10 min

Click to edit Master title style House on Mango Street 1.It doesn’t require KC at all. 2.It requires KC. 3.KC is the main requirement in this lesson. 4.Students are required to apply their knowledge in a new context. 5.It’s interdisciplinary.

Click to edit Master title style House on Mango Street: Take II Now, group work! Have one person from each group to be the representative clicker Discuss why you chose what you chose. Reach a consensus. Time: 10 min

Activity2: Let’s evaluate and improve sample lessons

Click to edit Master title style Indigenous Cultures Individual work!!! Download and open the lesson plan from EC website Read the lesson plan carefully and see which level this lesson can reach Time: 5 min

Click to edit Master title style Indigenous Cultures 1.It doesn’t require KC at all. 2.It requires KC. 3.KC is the main requirement in this lesson. 4.Students are required to apply their knowledge in a new context. 5.It’s interdisciplinary.

Click to edit Master title style Indigenous Cultures: let’s improve Now, group work! Within your group, discuss and revise the lesson plan, with an aim to improve to be a higher level Decide on a rapporteur Time: 10 min

Activity3: Let’s evaluate and improve your own PBL

Click to edit Master title style Your own PBL Group work 1.Evaluate the level at which your PBL would be. 2.After reaching consensus, try to decide which level you are aiming your PBL to be and improve. 3.Decide on a rapporteur Time: 10 min

Click to edit Master title style THANK YOU. Jonghwi Park ICT in Education, UNESCO BANGKOK (