The Summer Institute will take place over four days, with Days 1-3 building to presentations by participants on the last day. Day 4 presentations will establish our collective agenda for 2003-2004.

Days 1 and 2: Knowledge Building Advances and New Directions

We will start with a general overview of advances in practice, research, and development by the worldwide network of practitioners, researchers, and engineers of the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology, followed by three half-day sessions corresponding to the three themes of the institute presented on the General Information page. Each introductory session will provide a quick sketch of advances. These quick sketches will be in the form of 3-minute presentations by poster presenters (see the Call for Posters Page), followed by break-out sessions to view posters. We will then move into a 2-hour workshop, with teams forming to discuss new challenges and the advances required to move us beyond our own best practices, results, and technologies. The results of these workshop discussions will be presented on Day 4.

Day 3: The Knowledge Society Network: Research-based innovation.

Assessment of knowledge building focuses on advances in the "state of knowledge" in a classroom or workplace, and on the sociocognitive processes by which a community’s knowledge advances, not simply on individual knowledge acquisition. This workshop will include hands-on analysis of transcripts of Knowledge Forum databases and video. We will review assessment models and indicators based on Knowledge Building Principles and other relevant assessment and analytic methods, several of which are currently under development.

In the afternoon we will focus on the Knowledge Society Network (KSN), IKIT’s community-of-communities. Our collective resources represent a goldmine of data, analytic tools, documents, and other resources for the study and continual improvement of knowledge building theory, practices, and environments. We will focus on issues surrounding the use of this network.

Time will also be provided for final preparations for team presentations the next day.

Day 4: Beyond Best Practice Presentations: Our 2003-2004 Agenda.

The teams formed in Days 1 and 2 will present their proposed improvements in practice and research and development agendas. Discussion of these presentations will set the stage for our work over the next year.


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