Introduction
As AI becomes prevalent in education, there is an urgent need to consider how pedagogical approaches can move beyond integrating these emerging technologies toward leveraging them in ways that support, rather than supplant, students’ development of inventive thinking and effective collaboration – key E21CCs for a complex and fragmented world. This course is suitable for MOE teachers seeking ways to develop these competencies in their students by using state-of-the-art, research-supported technologies. Participants will engage in experiential and interactive activities to understand, design, enact, and refine practices that integrate AI and learning analytics to empower students to create new knowledge collaboratively.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Be introduced to a pedagogical approach known as Knowledge Building (KB) that promotes inventive thinking and effective collaboration, through interacting with an NIE-developed AI chatbot called the KB Learning Companion for Teachers (KB LCT),
- Observe KB pedagogical moves that integrate AI and other emerging technologies during an NIE programme for students called Knowledge Building Design Studio (KBDS),
- Analyze how these KB pedagogical moves foster inventive thinking and effective collaboration in a human-AI learning environment,
- Design a KB practice (lesson, lesson unit, or strategy), informed by KB principles and a school-based AI integration practice framework,
- Enact the KB practice in their own classrooms,
- Refine their KB practice using student artefacts and practitioner reflection, supported by experienced KB practitioners and/or the CRPP KB team,
- Engage productively in the KB Community by sharing their KB practices and learning from existing ones during local KB Community Networked Learning (KBCNL) events and international KB Connect sessions,
- Synthesize and communicate their professional learning through a KB practitioner video story for the KB Singapore website, articulating the design, enactment, and advancement of their KB practice as well as the growth of their professional identity,
- Have the opportunity to present and publish their practices with the mentorship of leaders in the KB Community.
MOE Educators
