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Children, on-line learning and authentic teaching skills in primary education |
ICT & Constructing Knowledge |
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Constructing Knowledge The aim of action learning is to construct knowledge that is more comprehensive, valid and useful. Action Learning generally begins with insightful questioning in the light of the learners' experience which may include experience of very recent actions and recently introduced programmed knowledge
The following process outline suggests that in constructing knowledge there are several steps through which a learner may 'journey'. It is important to keep in mind that this is not linear but the steps and the processes involved are almost always iterative.
1. Insightful questioning (requires concepts and experience) regarding the situation being addressed, viz, - what is there to know that might be of value? - how might this knowledge be achieved? 2. Identifying likely sources of suitable 'data' - Experience - Actions - Existing programmed knowledge 3. Acquire 'data' - Identify the available data - identify technology suitable for managing the data - Capture the data (notes, camera, scanner...) - Store the data (for future use) 4. Process the data into higher forms of knowledge - data into information ( describes phenomena) - information into knowledge (explains phenomena & enables prediction) - knowledge into wisdom (guides judgements) 5. Use the knowledge - apply it in one's own actions and future learning - prepare it for the use of others, eg, use word-processing, a graphic... - distribute it to others, eg, the phone, email, the web,
ICT and the Construction of Knowledge From the above outline it is clear that the construction of knowledge involves considerable activity and experience. It could be informative to consider how ICT might be used to at each stage of the above 'process'
The following mind map provides a visual outline of the above.
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