Day 1: Tuesday, August 10, 2004

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Initiative on the New Economy Clusters

— Voices from Knowledge Building Communities

— Knowledge Society Network Design Studio

— Workshops

— Summer Institute Database

- Blake Melnick, Richard Reeve & Mary Lamon

The Big Picture

IKIT--Mission and Accomplishments

Belief Mode vs Design Mode

— Moving Beyond Best Practice--Design Mode at the Summer Institute: Focus on Innovation, Assessment and creating a Community of Communities

• Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia

The International Design Experiment and Knowledge Building Environments Keywords: Innovation, Assessment & Community of Communities

• Eric Cooper and Marlene Scardamalia

Plenary: Voices from Knowledge Building Communities I - Leader: Chew Lee Teo

Elementary Science curriculum as knowledge building
- Oshima, J., Oshima, R., Yamamoto, T., Takeshita, Y. & Fujimoto, M. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge building among the lower achievers in Singapore
- Teo, C., Chiam, C. & Ng, F. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge Forum in the Public Schools
- DeSanctis, B. & Swan, S. - Keywords: Innovation

Explorations in facilitating Knowledge Building through learning task designs
- Ho, T. - Keywords: Innovation

"Sustainable Knowledge Building" a year later
- McAuley, A. - Keywords: Community of Communities

Knowledge building in Home Economics education
- Kivilehto, S. - Keywords: Innovation

Growing a knowledge-centric organization
- Melnick, B. & Day, A. - Keywords: Innovation

Transitioning to a knowledge building school: Balancing literacy with ideas at the center
- Bestvater, D., Dunlop, K., Harris, M., MacLelland, A. & Reeve, R. - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment

Knowledge building in an International, interdisciplinary learning community
- Sibbald, D. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

First Nations Recovery program and Knowledge Forum
- Andrews, C. & Lamon, M. - Keywords: Innovation

Plenary: Initiative on the New Economy: Cluster #1 - Building on intuitive understandings / A developmental pathway model of individual and group innovativeness / Comprehending difficult text as a task for collaborative problem-solving

Moving Beyond Best Practice: Breakthroughs in Cluster #1 • Marlene Scardamalia

Evolution in the 5th grade: Applying skill theory to the knowledge building process
- Blake, P., Fischer, K., Lamon, M. & Teplovs, C. - Keywords: Assessment

Learning from difficult text and collaborative knowledge building
- Chui, T. & Chan, C. - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment

Comprehending difficult text through problem solving: What is the problem?
- Lamon, M., Oshima, J., Caswell, B. & Reeve, R. - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment

Developing literacy with adolescents
- DeFroy, S. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge building and conceptual change
- Law, N., Lai, M. & Yuen, J. - Keywords: Assessment

Impact of task design on learners developmental trajectory in knowledge building
- Law, N. Yuen, A., Wong, E. & Yuen, J. - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment

Learning and Teaching for Depth in Science
- MacKinnon, K. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

Harnessing the potentials of on-line and off-line discourse: Innovations using handhelds to support conceptual change and knowledge building
- Nirula, L. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowing more than they can say (or read): Excavating and constructing scientific knowledge with grade two students
- O'Byrne, B. - Keywords: Assessment

From the lesson study toward the design study: Teacher development through their participation in design research practice
- Oshima, J., Oshima, R. & Horino, R. - Keywords: Community of Communities & Innovation

Coding epistemological shifts in teachers levels of approach to knowledge
- Ruffus, A. & Keefer, M.W. - Keywords: Assessment

Exploring the use of Squeak for modeling mathematical ideas
- Paradine, A. - Keywords: Innovation

Algebraic reasoning with grade four students: Understanding functions through mathematical discourse on Knowledge Forum
- Shillolo, G. & Barkin, S. - Keywords: Innovation

Computer supported collaborative reading for foreign language vocabulary acquisition
- Wible, D., Chen, H., & Chen, B. - Keywords: Innovation

Workshops - Day 1

KSN Design Studio - International Design Experiment - Collaborators: Marlene Scardamalia, Mary Lamon & Ola Erstad - Keywords: Innovation, Asssessment & Community of Communities

Room 2-211

Identifying and measuring conceptual change - Leader: Nancy Law - Keywords: Assessment - Room 2-212

Knowledge Building and skills development in business - Leader: Blake Melnick - Keywords: Community of Communities -

Room 2-214

Reading and contributing to the Summer Institute database - Labs #1 and #2, 3rd Floor (Individual work; support person Ann Russell)

Robotics & knowledge building - video analysis & design discussion - Leaders: Richard Reeve, Pat Clifford & Sharon Frieson - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment - Lab #4, 3rd floor

Teacher professional development  - Analyzing on-line discourse - Leader: Therese Laferriere - Keywords: Assessment & Community of Communities - Lab#5, 3rd Floor

Design your own workshop, Rooms available for booking: Lab #3 & rooms 3-311, 3-312

Round-Robin: Reports from Workshop Leaders

Wine and Cheese Reception

Day 2: Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Opening Remarks

Plenary: Voices from Knowledge Building Communities II - Leader: Richard Reeve

Designs that help move ideas to the center
- Donoahue, Z. & Reeve, R. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge building and early literacy development in Kindergarten: A pilot study
- Halewood, C., Hancock, L., Pelletier, J. & Reeve, R. - Keywords: Innovation

7 students from the Institute of Child Study Lab School will present their Knowledge Building work from the previous year.

Robotics & Knowledge Forum: Moving ideas to the center
- Cameron, M., Clifford, P., Friesen, S., Messina, R., Hewitt, J. & Reeve, R. - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment

Making the invisible visible
- Pennefather, P. & MacDonald, V. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

Plenary: Initiative on the New Economy: Cluster #2 - A shared resource for cross-sector research and innovation / Controlling the time demands of on-line teaching and knowledge building / Exploring the potential of semantic analysis to aid knowledge building

Moving Beyond Best Practice: Breakthroughs in Cluster #2 Marlene Scardamalia

Pre-Service Teacher Education: Supporting learning and engagement through online knowledge building
- Brett , C. & Moosabhoy, L. -Keywords: Community of Communities

Learning logs as an instructional and assessment tool for knowledge growth in an asynchronous conferencing course
- Forrester, B. & Brett, C. - Keywords: Assessment

Approaches to qualitative analysis conceptual change
- Mylopoulos, M, Nirula, L. & Teo, C. L. - Keywords: Assessment

The knowledge building model in the on-line University courses: a case study
- Cacciamani, S. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

An Italian community of research on learning and working environments supported by computers
- Cacciamani, S., Cesareni, D., Ligorio, B., & Martini, F. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

Mathematics learning as participation in a virtual community of practice
- Fortuny, J. & Richard, P. - Keywords: Community of Communities

Networked Intelligence: How human intelligence can be augmented through artifacts, communities, and networks
- Hakkarainen, K., Lonka, K. & Paavola, S. - Keywords: Innovation

Pre-service teachers' use of knowledge building scaffolds during field experiences and student teaching
- Laferriere, T. & Allaire, S. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

Sustaining knowledge building communities: E-learning and knowledge building environments
- Melnick, B., Lamon, M., Russell, A., Scardamalia, M., Smith Lea, B., Mcguire, J., Teplovs, C., Cunningham, C., Campbell, H., Henderson, J., & Matheson, A.
- Keywords: Innovation

Towards an understanding of student practices in asynchronous computer conferencing environments: Implications for distance education
- Peters, V. & Hewitt, J. - Keywords: Assessment

Video notes as a support for telementoring in a Knowledge Forum classroom
- Robertson, O., Hewitt, J., Messina, R. & Scardamalia, M. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge building in an undergraduate ECE course
- Punja, Z. - Keywords: Innovation

The project of artifacts collaborative knowledge building in networked learning environment
- Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Engestrom, R., Kangas, K. & Hakkarainen, K. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

Plenary: Initiative on the New Economy: Cluster #2 continued + Overview of new developments in assessment techniques - Mary Lamon, Li Sha & Don Philip

Overcoming barriers to conceptual change: Fueling idea improvement with knowledge building dynamic curriculum design and Analytic Toolkit (ATK) embedded concurrent feedback
- Lax, L., Scardamalia, M., Taylor, I. & Wilson-Pauwels, L. - Keywords: Innovation & Assessment

Patterns of use in Knowledge Forum
- Philip, D., Burtis, J., Lamon, M., Laferriere, T. & Allaire, S. - Keywords:Assessment

Emerging social positions in a computer-supported collaborative learning community
- Sha, L. & van Aalst, J. - Keywords:Assessment

A nonlinear dynamical model of knowledge building networks development - Sha, L. & van Aalst, J. - Keywords: Assessment

Students' on-line participation patterns in knowledge building
- Yuen, A., Law, N., Lai, M., Yuen, J. & Wong, E. - Keywords: Assessment

The growing networks of inquiry threads in knowledge building environment
- Zhang, J. - Keywords: Assessment

Workshops - Day 2

Day 1 workshops may continue with the following set of workshops being added:

KSN Design Studio - International Design Experiments (continued) - Collaborators: Marlene Scardamalia & Ola Erstad, - Keywords: Assessment, Innovation & Community of Communities - Room 2-211

KSN Design Studio - Re-designing "Intelligence On-line" - Apple/Galileo/IKIT collaboration - Collaborators: Pat Clifford, Sharon Friesen & Bob Kennedy • Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities - Room 2-211

Pervasive Knowledge Building: The promise of handheld technologies - Leaders: Bruce Forrester, Alvin Hui-Chun & Blake Melnick - Keywords: Innovation - Room 2-212

Teacher & student interviews (International Design Experiment) - Leader: Mary Lamon - Keywords: Assessment - Room 2-214

Knowledge Building Environments: Getting started - Leaders: Eric Cooper, Bill DeSanctis, Steve Swan, Chew Lee Teo, Sandy McAuley, Paul Johnson- Keywords: Innovation - Labs #1 & #2, 3rd Floor

Research instruments: Analytic Toolkit & Excel - Leader: Don Philip Keywords: Assessment - Lab #3, 3rd Floor

Health & Environment: The Knowledge Building Challenges - Leaders: Ann Russell & Van MacDonald - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities - Lab #4, 3rd Floor

Social Network Analysis - Leader: Li Sha - Keywords: Assessment Lab #5, 3rd Floor

Design your own workshop - Rooms available for booking: 3-311 & 3-312

Round-Robin: Reports from Workshop Leaders

Day 3: Thursday, August 12, 2004

Opening Remarks

Plenary: Voices from Knowledge Building Communities III - Leaders: Oksana Hohol & Sutapa Raybardhan

A way in for everyone: Designs for the democratization of knowledge
- Hohol, O., Raybardhan, S. & Reeve, R. - Keywords: Innovation

9 students from Rose Avenue Public School will present their Knowledge Building work from last year.

Plenary: Initiative on the New Economy: Cluster #3 - Shared problem spaces as a basis for cross-age, Cross-sector learning and knowledge creation/ Focus on idea improvement/ Theoretical development

Moving Beyond Best Practice: Breakthroughs in Cluster #3 • Marlene Scardamalia

Beyond best practice: Promoting a knowledge building orientation toward technology-enhanced curriculum development among pre-service educators - Brett, C. & Stanley, C. - Keywords: Innovation

The usability of Knowledge Forum in a mixed synchronous and asynchronous learning scenario: A project-based in Hamburg to learn more about the idea of knowledge building - Czerwionka, T., Gramlinger F. & Naeve, N. - Keywords: Innovation

Multimodality, project-based learning and knowledge building: Three case stories - Erstad, O. - Keywords: Innovation

Problem-based learning supported with Knowledge Forum in higher education: Lessons learned - Gros, B. & Alvarez, I. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge building within and beyond student teaching at a PDS
- Laferriere, T. & Allaire, S. - Keywords: Innovation

Interprofessional knowledge building in Health Sciences
- Lax, L. - Keywords: Innovation

What are 'experts' good for: Students' expectations and the determinants of perceived success in a telementoring program for adolescents
- O'Neill, K. & Asgari, M. - Keywords: Assessment

Building meta-knowledge of history through community inquiry
- O'Neill, K. & Sohbat, E. - Keywords: Innovation

Breaking free of roles that define and confine - Russell, A., Matheson, A., Campbell, H., Lamon, M., Scardamalia, M., Melnick, B., Henderson, J. & Cunningham, C. - Keywords: Innovation

Collaborating to innovate and improve patient-centered care at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Russell, A., Campbell, H., Scardamalia, M., Lamon, M., Melnick, B., Henderson, J., Cunningham, C. & Matheson, A. - Keywords: Innovation & Community of Communities

Doing what patients want: Designing for patient participation in collaborative knowledge building
- Matheson, A. & Russell, A. -Keywords: Innovation

Virtual design studio as a learning environment
- Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Lahti, H. & Hakkarainen, K. - Keywords: Innovation

On design experiments: The role of context and theory
- van Aalst, J. - Keywords: Innovation

Galileo, knowledge building and inquiry-based learning - Clifford, P. & Friesen, S. - Keywords: Innovation, Assessment & Community of Communities

Can barriers be broken?
- Kennedy, R. - Keywords: Innovation

Knowledge building and teacher education: Lessons learned from two graduate courses
- van Aalst, J. & Chan, C. - Keywords: Community of Communities

Framework for R&D in Singapore Schools - Case example of Knowledge Building through KF
- Tan, Seng Chee - Keywords: Innovation

Microgenetic Analysis of Knowledge Building
- Kurt Fischer Keywords: Assessment

Workshops - Day 3

KSN Design Studio Room (2-211)

International Design Experiment (Wall #1)

  • Teacher Development - Therese Laferriere
  • Book for Teacher Professional Development - Mary Lamon
  • Design Research Methodology (Wall #11)- Jan van Aalst

    Designing Knowledge Environments to Improve Business/Organization Performance- Leader: Blake Melnick - Keywords: Community of Communities -Room 2-212

    Robotics & knowledge building - video analysis & design discussionLeaders: Richard Reeve, Pat Clifford & Sharon Friessen- Keywords: Innovation & Assessment -Lab #3, 3rd Floor

    Telementoring for Knowledge Building: Defining new models - Leader: Kevin O'Neill - Keywords: Communitity of Communities -Lab #4, 3rd Floor

    Microgenetic analysis & Skill theory -Leaders: Kurt Fischer & Peter Blake - Keywords: Assessment -Lab #5, 3rd Floor

    Design your own workshop - Rooms available for booking: Labs #1/2 and rooms 3-311 & 3-312

    Day 4: Friday, August 13, 2004

    Framing the day - Preliminary report from the International Design Experiment

    Knowledge Society Network Design Studio: Preparing 'Moving Beyond Best Practice' presentations (On the obards in room 2-212 please indicate where you are working)

    Plenary: Moving Beyond Best Practice- Reporting Summaries and Plans

    (Please indicate that you will be presenting by posting a note in the Welcome view of the database

    Final Remarks

    Party at Carl and Marlene's house