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Empowering Education through Knowledge Building Centers

Transforming education with collaborative Knowledge Building Centers (KBC) for 21st Century skills development. Learn how to integrate specialists into teaching and learning using innovative technologies. Join us in redefining learning experiences!

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Empowering Education through Knowledge Building Centers

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  1. KNOWLEDGE BUILDING CENTERS WITH DAVID LOERTSCHER Everyone please log on to: https://sites.google.com/site/paknowledgebuildingcenters/

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. A Simple Solution: Knowledge Building Centers: Environments Where Collaboration is a Natural

  5. Sample KBC – on your screens

  6. KBC is Simple • A KBC is simple to construct on a variety of technologies: • Google Sites • Moodle • blog • Wiki • etc.

  7. The Structure of the KBC Makes Collaboration a Natural • I feel like helping • Inviting • Engaging • Give and take

  8. Specialists are at the Center of Teaching and Learning

  9. Personal Expertise and Collaborative Intelligence

  10. KBC Characteristic The project promotes mastery of 21st Century Skills that in turn drive deep understanding

  11. 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

  12. KBC Characteristic • The KBC is available to students and adults anywhere, at any time, and on any preferred device.

  13. KBC Uses • Single-class explorations • Cross-class inquiry • Cross-district, community, state, world inquiry • School projects/initiatives • Professional development • Professional learning communities

  14. 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

  15. 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: Table_one@gmail.com …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

  16. Our Big Think (see Reflection Tab) • http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/21stCentrySkills • Post two responses on the wall. • Thanks for participating. • Keep in Touch: reader.david@gmail.com

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