英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to explore whether engaging learners in knowledge building in a technology-supported online platform called Knowledge Forum could help them work together as a learning community to collaboratively learn to ask questions, discuss, co-construct cultural knowledge, and then produce tour-guide videos, and accordingly enhance their cultural knowledge and skills. Participants were seven elementary school students from an aboriginal tribe in Taiwan. Qualitative analysis and descriptive statistics were employed to explore data collected from online discussion and video production. The results showed: (1) Guided questioning activities online can help students continuously engage in online discussion , and accordingly co-construct the cultural knowledge required to better understand their Aboriginal culture; (2) The activity of producing tour-guide videos to introduce their aboriginal tribe also provides students with the opportunity to translate their cultural knowledge into useful skills to demonstrate the extent to which they know about the collectively constructed cultural knowledge via online discussion; and (3) Students’ collective questioning behaviors and cultural knowledge advancement is also found correlated to each other. Some implications related instructional design, aboriginal cultural education and policy-making are also discussed. |