Theme-based invited speakers

			Carol Chan Professor The University of Hong Kong
			Title : Cognition, Design and Culture for Scaffolding Knowledge Building Abstract : With the advent of knowledge-based era, major changes around the world now call for developing citizens’ capacities to innovate and to work with knowledge.  With intensive research efforts given to designing computer-supported environments for collaboration, inquiry and knowledge construction, major challenges continue to exist in how technology-enhanced learning can bring about knowledge creation and innovation in classroom for 21st century education.    In this presentation, I will examine the problem of education for knowledge creation from the perspective of knowledge building in particular examining cognition, technology and innovation in different cultural context.  Design-based research for scaffolding and theorizing knowledge building will be examined. Specifically, I will discuss knowledge building in international context drawing from my work on designing assessment models for scaffolding knowledge creation, bootstrapping knowledge creation among teachers in emergent knowledge-building communities, and examining how cognition, technology and culture influence innovation for knowledge creation in classrooms.
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Organized by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
Hosted by the National Science and Technology Program of eLearning, Taiwan