Knowledge building communities

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1 Background
2 Knowledge building communities in classrooms
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Background

A Knowledge Building Community (KBC) is a community in which the primary goal is knowledge creation rather than the construction of specific products or the completion of tasks. This notion is fundamental in Knowledge building theory. If knowldege is not realized for a community than we do not have knowldeg building. Examples of KBCs are

Classrooms
Academic research teams
Modern management companies
Modern business R&D groups

[edit] Knowledge building communities in classrooms

In knowledge building practices, the most important type of research was obtaining KBCs in classrooms. Transforming a classroom into a KBC requires a significant shift in classroom norms and also in student and teacher identities. In this context, students define themselves their personal learning goals and collaboratively pursue them. Students are viewed as intentional learners. Working at the edge of each competence". Knowledge advances not circumscribed by teacher’s knowledge

Specific to a KBC is the objectification of knowledge artifacts. More precisely, if in a regular class, questions, ideas and discussions are personal and ethereal constructs in a KBC classroom, they are public artifacts that have a permanent presence in a digital format, usually in the classroom database. For this reason, they can be analyzed, pointed at, talked about, and progressively refined over time.

In order to be successfull, the members of the Knowledge-buikding community should accomplish the followings: