CT - Scardamalia? by L.P.

Post date: Dec 1, 2014 12:12:07 AM

Have any of you ever heard of this person? I had not. I am thrilled, however, that I got the opportunity to research Marlene Scardamalia for the Learning Theorist assignment. as stated on the website founded on Scardamalia's ideas at http://ikit.org/kbi/knowledge-building "To understand knowledge building it is essential to distinguish learning – "the process through which the cultural capital of a society is made available to successive generations" from knowledge building – the deliberate effort to increase the cultural capital. This, in turn, requires distinguishing knowledge building from a broad range of activities that share its constructivist underpinnings, but not its focus on the creation of new knowledge. These include collaborative learning, guided discovery, project-based learning, communities of learners, communities of practice and anchored instruction."

It seems that I have heard some of this before. I think there are undercurrents of Dewey in these writings.