Curriculum design for social, cognitive and emotional engagement in Knowledge Building

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education

Gaoxia Zhu¹  Wanli Xing²  Jim Slotta³  Preeti Raman³ 

[1] Department of Human Development, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University;Educational Technology, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida;Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto;

关键词: Student engagement;    Student voice;    Socio-emotional interaction;    Knowledge Building;    Design-based research;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41239-021-00276-9

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Knowledge Building has been advanced as a pedagogy of engaged learning where students identify as a community whose purpose is to advance their shared ideas. This approach, which has been studied for three decades (Scardamalia & Bereiter, in: K. Sawyer (ed) Cambridge handbook of the learning sciences, Cambridge University Press, 2014), includes cognitive, social constructivist, and emotional elements (Zhu et al. in User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 29: 789–820, 2019b). This paper investigates how refining Knowledge Building activities based on students’ feedback impacts their social, cognitive, and emotional engagement. Using a design-based research method, we refined successive course activities based on feedback from 23 Masters of Education students. With successive iterations, we found that the density of students’ reading networks increased; they theorized more deeply, introduced more authoritative resources, and made greater efforts to integrate ideas within the community knowledge base. As well, their level of negative affect decreased. These findings suggest that soliciting students’ input into course design can benefit their engagement and disposition toward learning, with implications for curriculum design.

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