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Designing the Situation for Pervasive Knowledge Building: Future School Experiences

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Knowledge Creation in Education

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This chapter foregrounds a knowledge-centered pedagogy as an overarching framework to design future learning environments. Specifically, we present our research work in a particular future school in Singapore that aims to make pervasive knowledge building as a core practice of student learning. By pervasive knowledge building in the context of our research study, we advocate the continuous improvement and the progressive advancement of knowledge beyond the four walls of the classroom to embrace both formal learning situation in the classroom and informal learning. Employing design-based research as a methodological tool, we trace how the design of knowledge building activities had evolved over a 3-year period toward our research goal for promoting pervasive knowledge building among students. As an attempt to make our tacit design ideas explicit, we pay particular attention to unpack and elaborate the complexity of design features that guided the overall design of knowledge building activities. We conclude the chapter with discussions that highlight tensions and issues related to the design of future learning environments from knowledge creation perspectives.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the FutureSchools@Singapore project under the National Research Foundation’s (NRF) Interactive and Digital Media (IDM) in Education Research and Development (R&D) Programme. Portions of this paper were presented at the ICCE 2012 workshop. This research was conducted when the first author was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We are thankful to the teachers, students, and researchers who supported this research.

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  1. Department of Creative IT Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, South Korea

    Hyo-Jeong So

  2. Munich Center of the Learning Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Leopoldstr. 44, 80802, Munich, Germany

    Esther Tan

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  2. Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hyo Jeong So

  3. National Institute of Education, Singapore, Singapore

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So, HJ., Tan, E. (2014). Designing the Situation for Pervasive Knowledge Building: Future School Experiences. In: Tan, S., So, H., Yeo, J. (eds) Knowledge Creation in Education. Education Innovation Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-047-6_8

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