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Carl Bereiter

Carl Bereiter. ED 530 Theorist Presentation Summer 2010. Professor at the University of Toronto Cofounder of IKIT (Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology) Member of the US National Academy of Education. Background. CSCL.

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Carl Bereiter

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  1. Carl Bereiter ED 530 Theorist Presentation Summer 2010

  2. Professor at the University of Toronto Cofounder of IKIT (Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology) Member of the US National Academy of Education Background

  3. CSCL • Was the chief pioneer of Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) • CSCL was the first system for networked learning • Created a second system for networked learning called the knowledge forum

  4. Knowledge Building • Developed by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scarmadalia • Describes what learners need to accomplish to gain knowledge • Addresses the need to educate people for the knowledge age society

  5. Knowledge Building vs. Learning • Knowledge building is…. creating new cognitive artifacts as a result of common goals, group discussion, and synthesis of ideas. • Learning is….. an internal and often unobservable process of that results in the change of beliefs, attitudes, or skills.

  6. 12 Principles of Knowledge Building • Real ideas • Improvable ideas • Idea diversity • Rise above • Epistemic agency • Community knowledge, collective responsibility • Concurrent, embedded, and transformative assessment • Democratizing knowledge • Symmetric knowledge advancement • Pervasive knowledge building • Constructive use of sources • Knowledge building discourse

  7. What does all of this mean? • Because of his research teachers, students, and professors are able to better understand how we think • Knowledge building is attainable if you follow certain steps • By using knowledge building we are better able to understand and recall information

  8. Works Cited Bereiter, C. (2002). Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age http://ikit.org/people/bereiter.html Bereiter, C., & Scardamalia, M. (2007). Toward research-based innovation. In F. Benavides (Ed.), Emerging models for learning and innovation. OECD.

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