Critical thinking

Watch this video of a Grade 7-10 Language / Environmental Studies project and make notes about what you think is the role of critical thinking in knowledge building.

Critical Thinking Wins the Day at a KIPP High School (5:26)

Collaborative knowledge building

If you were asked to evaluate a project for its knowledge-building you may have to find an assessment tool to use. This would be an example of using someone else's knowledge and applying it in a routine assessment. However, if you designed your own assessment tool, based on your own understanding of knowledge building, this would be an example of knowledge building. Let's do just that. In the next activity you will be asked to evaluate four projects and to pick the one with the best knowledge-building attributes.

Your tutor will set up the wiki and invite you to join it. Go to the page called Knowledge-building rubric on the wiki. Other than that, there will be no guidance. Let's see what happens. Of course, with collaboration your group will rely on you as much as you depend on them. Everyone must contribute.