Unit 2 - Knowledge Building, Technology Characteristics

ETAP623 : Unit 2 - Knowledge Building, Technology (Characteristics) This page last changed on Jan 23, 2008 by wikiadm1. KF Characteristics The following slides which exemplify the main characteristics of the KF environment were taken from an introductory slideshow that can be found in its entirety at the Knowledge Forum® website. The 4 slides, all used with permission from KF, provide an overview of KF's most interactive and interesting aspects. Ideas Ideas at the Center: This slide displays the various items that can be found in the KF environment. These items include images, video, text, and attachments. Scaffolds Scaffolding between students: While teachers are familiar with the concept of scaffolding (interacting with students by building on each others' ideas), they might not realize that allowing students to scaffold their own ideas with other students' can be a powerful learning tool. KF allows student to reply to other students' notes utilizing the 'rise-above' features which help them to frame their responses and put them in context to assist in the development of the idea. Community Discourse from the community: Ideas become community property from which other students (in addition to the teacher, outside experts, etc) can build, create references, or annotate each other's ideas. Ideas then can grow as the community contributes new thoughts and information. Views Views from various perspectives: Ideas are presented in a format called "Views". The unique design of KF allows any of the ideas created to be additionally present in a number of different views. This allows the idea to be presented in different contexts, useful in looking at ideas from various sides. Please continue on to the final page of this unit for the wrap-up. Unit 2 Knowledge Building Technology | Characteristics | Unit 2 - Knowledge Building, Technology Wrap-Up Attachments: [download/attachments/5996581/KF_09b.png KF_09b.png] (image/png) [download/attachments/5996581/KF_10b.png KF_10b.png] (image/png) [download/attachments/5996581/KF_11b.png KF_11b.png] (image/png) [download/attachments/5996581/KF_12b.png KF_12b.png] (image/png)

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