However, moving the education system beyond knowledge acquisition to knowledge
creation involves a more profound participation of students in their own learning. Learning
how to learn is both a goal and a central classroom practice. Students identify problems or
goals of shared value and produce plans and products that will accomplish these goals or
solve the problems (Blumenfeld et al., 1991). In helping students create and share new
knowledge, teachers design tasks and activities that engage students in these knowledgebuilding
processes. To support student learning, teachers explicitly model cognitive and social
processes of knowledge building and they prompt students to take up these practices for
themselves (Brown & Palinscar, 1989).