19/10/2021
COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge building and learning; two of a perfect community transformation. Without which there may not exist a prosperous community.
While discussing the needs for focusing on educational ideas and enabling technology for knowledge-building discourse, Scardamalia and Bereiter(2002) wrote; "schools need to be restructured as communities in which the construction of knowledge is supported as a collective goal, and the role of educational technology should be to replace classroom discourse patterns with those having more immediate and natural extensions to knowledge-building communities outside school walls".
Yes, and that is just a section of "Collective Intelligence". We are not there yet until we are able to use this approach on every aspect of human lives. Community knowledge (especially local communities) needs to be harnessed to create new cognitive and economic artifacts as a result of common goals, group discussions, and synthesis of ideas.
Right now, we are focusing on using an integrated version of this approach to help farmers within the local communities across Africa. This knowledge building approach is fostering deep constructivism that involves collective enquiry into specific topics (especially in agriculture/ecological issues)transformation a deeper understanding through interactive questioning, dialogues, and continuous improvement of ideas, which brings about sustainability, equality, and favorable transformation (in government policies, and industrial practices). We are already working on this both officially and otherwise with partners in Nigeria, Morocco and Ghana. We look forward to building knowledge repositories worthy of sustaining the African future.
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