Collaboration Are students required to share responsibility and make substantive decisions with other people? Knowledge construction Are students required to build knowledge? Is that knowledge interdisciplinary? Use of ICT for learning Do students use ICT to support knowledge building? Is ICT necessary to that knowledge building? Self-regulation Is the learning activity long-term? Do students plan and assess their own work? Skilled communication Did the student produce extended communication? Was the communication well-developed and organized around a thesis? Real-world problem-solving and innovation Does the learning activity require solving authentic, real-world problems? Are students solutions implemented in the real world? Learning Design: Lets Do It For each 21 st Century skill, we will: Learn and discuss common definitions and a rubric Apply these ideas to sample learning activities how strong are the opportunities they give students to build this skill? Use the rubric to strengthen a learning activity Look at the relationship between learning activity design and student work
What does collaboration mean? Collaboration In todays interconnected world, real project work often requires collaboration across organizations (e.g. a collaboration between a pharmaceutical company and a chemical engineering company to produce a new vaccine), or with people in a different part of the world. This type of working requires strong collaboration skills to work productively on a team and to integrate individual expertise and ideas into a coherent solution. Do your learning activities model this today?
This rubric examines whether students are working with others on the learning activity, and the quality of that collaboration. (Research rubrics)
At higher levels of the rubric students share responsibility for their work, and the learning activity is designed in a way that requires students to make substantive decisions together. These features help students learn the important collaboration skills of negotiation, conflict resolution, agreement on what must be done, distribution of tasks, listening to the ideas of others and integration of ideas into a coherent whole. The strongest learning activities are designed so that student work is interdependent, requiring all students to contribute in order for the team to succeed.
Knowledge Construction.? Info and ideas Solution What is knowledge work? Creating Social Programs Policies & Laws Web apps & Software Strategies Design
Knowledge Construction
We often hear the term knowledge. More and more, people are expected to not only be intelligent consumers of information, but also to create information and ideas. Students are asked to do the same: to evaluate, synthesize, analyze and interpret information. We have overwhelming access to data so we must prepare students to be informed consumers and smart producers who can integrate information from multiple sources across multiple disciplines in order to further expand their learning and make sense of the world.
Do your learning activities model this today?
Knowledge construction activities require students to generate ideas and understandings that are new to them. Students can do this through interpretation, analysis, synthesis or evaluation. In stronger activities, knowledge construction is the main requirement of the learning activity.
The strongest activities require students to apply the knowledge they constructed in a different context, helping them to deepen their understanding further, and to connect information and ideas from two or more academic disciplines (for example, integrating learning from both science and literature). Knowledge Construction