Knowledge

Building Can

Happen with

5 year olds!

Challenge for todays classroomsChilds own commitment to progress

Creating a shared understanding versus

compliance

Embracing technology in purposeful and

empowering ways

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

What we valueDifference

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

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

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

Attitudes and SkillsConstructivist 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

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

Student ReflectionsI 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

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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