We discuss knowledge building in the context of government examinations in Hong Kong, and the need to develop twenty-first-century skills. Following this, we describe two pedagogical designs intended to develop knowledge building in this context: A gradual approach to develop it in four phases - developing a collaborative classroom culture, engaging in inquiry and curriculum adaptation, deepening knowledge-building discourse, and making use of knowledge-building principles and electronic portfolios - and an approach that extends from this to improve integration of the use of a web-based knowledge-building environment and classroom activities.
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Van Aalst, J., & Chan, C. K. K. (2012). Empowering students as knowledge builders. In Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms: Future Proofing Education (Vol. 9789400726420, pp. 85–103). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2642-0_6
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