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Collaborative Knowledge Building
I have used Knowledge Forum from 2000 to promote collaborative knowledge building. It is a little but clumsy nowadays. That is why I am testing now Facebook as a platform for collaborative knowledge building. I have accepted most of persons who want to build knowledge collaboratively with me. My Facebook site is http://www.facebook.com/people/Mauri-Ahlberg/100000393951781
We live in the Knowledge Age, the period of time,
when creating knowledge has become more important than ever before,
when economy is globalizing, and networking is more and more becoming
a way to become empowered. There are real problems, problems of
competitiveness, cooperation and environmental problems, of communities,
nations and humankind, solving of which requires integrating expertise
of many people. Everywhere in society, in schools, in corporations
people ought to learn how to collaboratively build knowledge, create
better and better solutions for real problems of humankind. This
is why Collaborative Knowledge Building facilitated by Knowledge
Forum® has been one of my main research interests since the
beginning of year 2000. In Spring 2000 I had a possibility to learn
to use Knowledge Forum in OISE/University of Toronto. I studied
both theory and practice of Collaborative Knowledge Building and
design and use of Knowledge Forum. Later on I had a possibility
to use local databases to practice use of Knowledge Forum In August
2000 I took a part in Summer Institute of Knowledge Forum. I learnt
again both new theory and practice of Collaborative Knowledge Building
and Knowledge Forum®. In November 2000 I was asked to support
and join the virtual Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology
(IKIT), http://ikit.org/.
I have introduced three new quality tools (Improved
Concept Mapping, Improved
Vee Heuristics and ARRA or Analysis of Reasoning,
Rhetorics and Argumentation ) to monitor and promote collaborative
knowledge building (e.g. Åhlberg, M., Kaasinen, A., Kaivola,
T. & Houtsonen, L. 2001).
References:
Åhlberg, M., Kaasinen, A., Kaivola, T. &
Houtsonen, L. 2001. Collaborative knowledge building to promote
in-service teacher training in environmental education. Journal
of Information Technology for Teacher Education 10(3), 227 - 238.
Bereiter, C. 2002. Education and Mind in the
Knowledge Age. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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