5 Identifying Knowledge in the Community
5 Identifying Knowledge in the Community is a personal disclosure exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Provide participants with crafting supplies, like different colored paper, tape, and markers for participants to construct their knowledge trees.
- Organize participants into small groups (4-6 ppl).
- Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.
- Participants examine the different kinds of knowledge they have gained.
- This activity disrupts traditional notions of how we think about knowledge and where it is located.
- 5.0 2 rating(s) average rating is 5 out of 5, based on 2 votes, rating(s) Learning Goals Participants will have a deeper appreciation for the multiplicity of knowledge in a community.
- Participants will question how knowledge is valued in society and who or what is served by this ranking.
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Prompts to use +
Provide participants with crafting supplies, like different colored paper, tape, and markers for participants to construct their knowledge trees.
Organize participants into small groups (4-6 ppl).
Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.
Participants examine the different kinds of knowledge they have gained.
5.0 2 rating(s) average rating is 5 out of 5, based on 2 votes, rating(s) Learning Goals Participants will have a deeper appreciation for the multiplicity of knowledge in a community.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 5 Identifying Knowledge in the Community. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Provide participants with crafting supplies, like different colored paper, tape, and markers for participants to construct their knowledge trees.; Organize participants into small groups (4-6 ppl).; Begin by introducing the learning goals of this activity.; Participants examine the different kinds of knowledge they have gained.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Collaborative Discussion Project; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Collaborative Discussion Project.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.