F2F and online discussion

The face-to-face discussion in class extended to online discussion on KF. Again, students were also required to keep a weekly learning diary.

Consolidation

Students worked in groups to summarize big ideas and further discuss about those ideas.

Examples of students’ discussion view on KF:

Identify good discussion

Students were asked to formulate their own criteria of a good discussion and learning diary based on the KB Award Scheme (introduced by CITE, HKU).

According to the KB Award Scheme, a good knowledge builder should be able to promote idea progression and knowledge building through:

• Actively and enthusiastically read notes written by others
• Serious thinking and putting forward constructive and critical responses
• Proper use of inquiry questions, titles, scaffolds, keywords, references, annotations and other functions in KF

• Use of authoritative sources
• Democratizing knowledge (reference the ideas of other people/ideas constructed collectively)
• Idea diversity (include multiple perspectives)
• Improvable ideas (show how the ideas have been improved)
• Review and reflect regularly (review, refine and write reflections regularly)

The students worked as a class and developed a rubric for peer assessment of the learning diaries. Some students revised their learning diary entries based on comments from classmates.

Student’s learning journal on Knowledge Forum