2023 Thrive 3 - Knowledge building and Technical Drawing

 Technical Drawing is a means to communicate according to a convention one's idea to another person. What is there to knowledge build?

So when dealing with cases where one needs to acquire certain technical drawing skills. Will knowledge building pedagogy cease to function? Or are students seeking a convention that works for them at their level and continues to work towards a convention that is accepted in the industry.

Again, this is a part of developing one's capacity. Instead of the capacity of knowledge building, it is the competency in technical drawing skills.

As knowledge creation is different from acquisition and participation, should we be clear not to force fit the pedagogy?

First, let's start with understanding issues related to the acquisition of this factual knowledge called working drawing. Students usually missed out on dimensions in their working drawings. So this is a knowledge problem. They can then brainstorm how to ensure that their working drawing is complete and can be used by another person. 

Pose the questions to the students and see if they could come out with an idea to solve the problem of missing dimensions. They could "test out the working drawing" by marking it out on a piece of paper. Some students may have experience with CAD. 

Conclusion: In the case of the acquisition of knowledge, one ought to look at what are the learning issues related to the acquisition mode of learning and think through if knowledge building approach could be a solution to it.

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