Idea centered knowledge building environment
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The document discusses an idea-centered knowledge building environment, emphasizing the definition of 'ideas' and their roles in education and community. It outlines the interaction between Karl Popper's three worlds, the significance of knowledge building as a continuous improvement of valuable ideas, and various tools and challenges in fostering these ideas within educational settings. Additionally, it touches on the implications of social media and open education resources for knowledge creation.
Idea centered knowledge building environment
- 1. Idea-centered Knowledge Building Environment Bodong Chen Nov 4, 2010
- 2. What is an “idea?” • An idea could be: – whatever is before the mind when one thinks (arising in a reflex, spontaneous manner, even without thinking or serious reflection) – a personal view – representational images; i.e. images of some object – the content of cognition – a fundamental ontological category of being • Karl Popper’s (1972) philosophical theory of reality: – World 1: the world of physical objects and events – World 2: the mental or psychological world—metal states or processes, such as feelings, perceptions, memory, experience, etc. – World 3: the world of the products of the human mind, such as languages, tales, mathematical constructions, symphonies, paintings, sculptures. – Interactions among three worlds.
- 3. Knowledge Building: Towards idea-centered education • Idea-centered education (Scardamalia, 2002) – KB is the production and continual improvement of ideas of value to a community (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2003a). – … ideas are treated as real things, as objects of inquiry and improvement in their own right. KB environments enable ideas to get out into the world and onto a path of continual improvement (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2003a). – … ideas that have a life out in the world, where they are subject to social processes of evaluation, revision, and application … support idea development in both education and workplace situations (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2003b). – Knowledge building refers to collective work for the advancement and elaboration of conceptual artifacts (product plans, business strategies, marketing plans, theories, ideas, and models), the entities of Karl Popper’s World 3 (Paavola et al, 2004).
- 4. Ideas in KB communities Figure. An evolutionary view of idea improvement (Hong & Sullivan, 2008).
- 5. Environments for idea improvement • Knowledge Building environments – Knowledge Forum • Idea-management software – Edistorm – Wridea – IdeaScale – Jive – Kindling – …
- 7. Edistorm
- 8. Ideascale
- 9. Kindling
- 10. Design challenges • How to give lives to ideas in this environment? • How to support knowledge-creating discourse in an idea-centered manner?
- 11. In Knowledge Forum Big Ideas tool for students to make judgment on ideas’ promisingness (Chen et al., 2010).
- 12. New contexts: social media and open education • Blog, Twitter, … • Open Learning Resources, Open Learning Initiative (OLI), P2PU, …
- 14. References • Chen, B., Chuy, M., Resendes, M., & Scardamalia, M. (2010). “Big Ideas Tool” as a new feature of Knowledge Forum. Poster presented at the 2010 Knowledge Building Summer Institute, Toronto, Canada. • Hong, H.-Y., R. Sullivan, F. R. (2008). Towards an Idea-Centered, Principle-Based Design Approach to Support Learning as Knowledge Creation. Educational Technology Research and Development, 57(5), 613-627 • Paavola, S., Lipponen, L., & Hakkarainen, K. (2004). Models of innovative knowledge communities and three metaphors of learning. Review of Educational Research, 74(4), 557–576. • Popper, K. (1972). Objective knowledge: An evolutionary approach. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. • Scardamalia, M. (2002). Collective cognitive responsibility for the advancement of knowledge. In B. Smith (Ed.), Liberal education in a knowledge society (pp. 67-98). Chicago: Open Court. • Scardamalia, M., & Bereiter, C. (2003). Knowledge Building. In Encyclopedia of Education. (2nd ed., pp. 1370-1373). New York: Macmillan Reference, USA. • Scardamalia, M., & Bereiter, C. (2003). Knowledge building environments: Extending the limits of the possible in education and knowledge work. In A. DiStefano, K.E. Rudestam, & R. Silverman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of distributed learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.