1. Knowledge
Building Can
Happen with
5 year olds!

4. Challenge for todays classrooms
Childs own commitment to progress
Creating a shared understanding versus
compliance
Embracing technology in purposeful and
empowering ways

5. Our goal
Encourage children to….
become empowered in the learning process
embrace a commitment to their own success
and achievement
become empowered by the feelings that go with
learning
become more collaborative so every child was
valued and a contributor to
learning
recognise and value difference
Embrace technology in a
purposeful and motivational way

6. What we value
Difference
Questioning
Flexibility
The emotions that are attached
to learning for intrinsic motivation
Open mindedness
- no pre-empted ideas!
Children owning the learning process to
construct their own understanding – goes much
deeper than teachers could ever reach

9. Brain Explosion provides….
Concentrated array of qualitative information as
a starting point of prior knowledge and
experiences to build on, but also will assist to
identify interrelationships between ideas
Opportunities to seek further information, ask
more questions, and to become intrinsically
motivated by curiosity
A place for teachers to develop and improve
knowledge provided, with students
How people work collaboratively for successful
outcomes

10. Structure that allows for …
Students are encouraged to take responsibility
for their own learning and the learning of others
Sharing is an essential component to advance
the communities understanding and invite
further discussion
Creates opportunity for a sustained inquiry
approach to support improved learning
Everyone’s ideas are valued and vital for
learning
Students advance in their own
way, in their own time
Belief that ideas are always
improvable

11. Attitudes and Skills
Constructivist belief that students are capable
of creating knowledge
Students are expected to
be in control of the direction of their
learning, goal setting
expected to challenge their own
views, justify their ideas, and
identify areas of confusion
Students become conscious of their
responsibility as a learner

12. What we have created…
open mindedness of others’ ideas
engagement through questioning
think time is valued and appreciated
students now explore and question, connect
a variety of ideas, to further their own
understandings.
students who can respond with
thoughtful answers or questions

13. Student Reflections
I know how to write facts on the computer
I can now do research because I like research
Seeing others ideas added to my idea to make
a great idea
It’s better than talking because I could really
understand it because I could read it.
You could fix your ideas on the computer but
can’t when you try to explain things with your
words

14. When I publish my ideas I don’t get
embarrassed, I feel proud of my
learning, my ideas can help other
people and I can help others
It helped me learn ideas from other
people
Some words others put in I
can spell correctly now.
I can do my learning in a
different way

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