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Marlene Scardamalia

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Marlene Scardamalia is an education researcher and a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. With Carl Bereiter she created and developed the Knowledge Building theory, which describes what a community of learners needs to accomplish in order to create knowledge. Knowledge building is defined as the creation, testing and improvement of conceptual artifacts, and it is not confined to education but applies to creative knowledge work of all kinds.

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1. Wikipedia: Marlene Scardamalia
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    professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
  • In Group: Social, Sociocultural and Situated Learning Researchers, Lead
    Knowledge Forum was designed to offer technical support for Knowledge building theory.
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The Knowledge Building (KB) theory was created and developed by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia for describing what a community of learners needs to accomplish in order to create knowledge.
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