The History Times

The History Times: Living in the Interwar Period

Presentation by CCKSians to the Knowledge Building International Community

Historians are curators who capture, connect and construct stories of the past. Over the past year, students from Clementi Town Secondary School and Chua Chu Kang Secondary School came together to build knowledge on the big idea of the Interwar Period. After engaging in a series of collaborative activities and rigorous performance tasks, the students then worked together in conceptualizing, designing, and creating a set of history newsletters related to the theme.

On 14th April 2023, the Knowledge Building Networked Learning Community brought together over 50 teachers, students, researchers and experts all over the world to learn, inquire and deepen their collective understanding on the interwar period. Co-presenting with their peers from CTSS, their joint concurrent sharing sessions got the participants to be fully engaged, enriched, and empowered with regards to their level of historical literacy, consciousness, and discourse.

Building upon these meaningful experiences, the school is now looking into enhancing this cross-school collaboration with the possibility of working with overseas institution(s)/school(s).

Above: Screenshots of the newsletter. You can click on this link to have full access to the PDF version of the newsletter https://tinyurl.com/mrxhwx7f.

Above: Screenshots of students’ collaborative learning experiences of the various activities and performance tasks, ranging from the use of Knowledge Forum community platform to the engagement on historical conversations with invited guest speakers, and to the creation of sustainability history newsletter resources for Knowledge Building design studio national symposium (KBDS) 2022. Participants for the KBDS 2022 were in awe of CCKSians sustainability newsletters that focuses on interesting themes, covering the History of Facial Hair and History of Fashion. You can click on this link to access the PDF version of the sustainability newsletter https://tinyurl.com/mrxhwx7f.

Above: Screenshots of the presentation slides by the students for the 14th April 2023 KBNLC session. You can click on this link to access the PDF version of the slides https://tinyurl.com/mrxhwx7f.

Above: Screenshots of CCKSians in action during the KBNLC International Session on 14th April 2023. The team presented at National Institute of Education (Singapore) to on-site and online participants. Participants include teachers and researchers from Singapore, China (inclusive of Hong Kong), Canada and USA.