Time and

location

Description

Tomorrow’s Innovators

8:00-8:45

Library

Registration and breakfast at OISE/University of Toronto

9:00 Elementary school students arrive at OISE/UT

Room: Library

9:30-12:00

Tomorrow’s Innovators session

Room 9-105 & Computer lab #3

12:00-12:30

Lunch

Room 2-295

12:30-1:45

Global Change: Rising Above with Rich Media – Labs 3 & 4

1:45-3:30

Tomorrow’s Innovators Energetics

4:00 Students leave for home

8:45-9:00

Library

Welcome

9:00-9:50

Library

Plenary Session #1 - What is Knowledge Building? Part 1

What is Distinctive About a Knowledge Building Community?

PRESENTER: Marlene Scardamalia

Working in Design-Mode at the Summer Institute

• Tomorrow’s Innovators

• Deep, cross-discipline understanding of climate change

• Sustainable and scalable knowledge building communities

• Knowledge building dynamics and assessment

9:50-10:15

Library

Plenary Session #2 - Knowledge Building at the Summer Institute: An Overview

PRESENTERS: Richard Reeve, Jianwei Zhang, Chew Lee Teo, & Don Philip

• Overview of program

• Workshops – Knowledge Building/Knowledge Forum^® 4.7/SI database

• Poster session (Wednesday) & “Create your own” sessions (Thursday & Friday)

• Design-Mode Teams and Plenary Sessions for Tomorrow’s Innovators (Library)

• Paper Sessions – Leader’s Role

• “Analysis, Reflection & Tour” (ART) sessions

• Hub/ART Room & Observing Tomorrow’s Innovators

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Various locations

Session I

Session Ia: Tomorrow’s Innovators Observation Session I – LEADERS: Jianwei Zhang & Richard Reeve – Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL) Lab 3^rd Floor

Session Ib: Workshop - What is Knowledge Building? Part 2

LEADERS: Jim Hewitt & Earl Woodruff - Library

Create your own session for Thursday or Friday – sign-up in Library

12:00-1:00

Room 2-295

Lunch at OISE/University of Toronto

1:00-2:30

Various locations

Session II

Session IIa: “Analysis, Reflection & Tour” (ART Session I) – LEADERS: Jianwei Zhang & Chew Lee Teo - Teachers: Heather Lott & Eddy Lee. Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL), Hub/ART Room 3^rd Floor

Session IIb: Workshop - Introduction to Knowledge Forum 4.7 & The Summer Institute database “SI 2007”

LEADERS: Chris Teplovs & Richard Reeve – Labs 1 & 2, 3^rd Floor

Create your own session for Thursday or Friday sign-up in Library

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:45

Library for 15 Minutes & then Various Locations

Design-Mode Meetings I

Meet in the library to discuss goals, then move to one of the three design-mode team locations:

• Deep, cross-discipline understanding of climate change – Room 2-212

• Sustainable and scalable knowledge building communities - Library

• Knowledge building dynamics and assessment - Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL) Lab 3^rd Floor

3:45-4:30

Library

Plenary Session #3: Designs for Tomorrow I

Design teams, teachers and students meet to refine Tomorrow’s Innovators sessions.

4:30-6:00

Welcome Reception

Duke of York, 39 Prince Arthur Avenue (Invitation and one free drink ticket in your folder!)

Time and

location

Description

Tomorrow’s Innovators

8:00-8:45

Library

Registration and breakfast at OISE/University of Toronto

9:00 Students arrive at OISE/UT

Room: Library

9:30-12:00

Tomorrow’s Innovators session

Room 9-105

12:00-12:30

Lunch-

Room 2-295

12:30-1:45

Global Change: Rising Above with Rich Media – Labs 3 & 4

1:45-3:30

Tomorrow’s Innovators Energetics

4:00 Students leave for home

8:45-10:15

Various Locations

Session III

Session IIIa: International Multi-lingual KB Cooperation Project (Part 1)

#29 Knowledge Building, coélaboration de connaissances où?, Thérèse Laferrière; #39 International cooperation for knowledge building, Mireia Montane (Two-part session continues Thursday at 8:45)

LEADERS: Thérèse Laferrière & Mireia Montane – Library

Session IIIb: Contexts for Professional Development

#10 Deeper understanding on different levels, Bert Reijnen; #36 What makes a professional community innovative? Jianwei Zhang; #38 Patterns of discourse for improving knowledge building practice, Chew Lee Teo; #44 Using knowledge building principles as evaluation and design rubrics for the continuing education and professional development curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine UofT, Ann Russell; #16 Supporting deep understanding through facilitated knowledge building in an End-of-Life Care Program for Family Physicians, Leila Lax.

LEADER: Jianwei Zhang – Room 2-212

Session IIIc: Workshop – Open Sourcing Knowledge Forum

#42 Open sourcing Knowledge Forum, Chris Teplovs.

LEADER: Chris Teplovs – Room 2-211

Create your own session for Thursday or Friday AM sign-up in Library

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Various Locations

Session IV

Session IVa: Tomorrow’s Innovators Observation Session II

LEADERS: Jianwei Zhang & Richard Reeve – Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KILT) Lab 3^rd Floor

Session IVb: Knowledge Building, Gender and Social Position

#2 Knowledge building and gender: Are there differences in knowledge building behaviours along gender lines? Don Philip; #37 Addressing gender gap in literacy through knowledge building, Yanqing Sun; #40 Social position in a knowledge building community, Stefano Cacciamani.

LEADER: Stefano Cacciamani - Room 2-212

Session IVc: Knowledge Building in International Contexts

#23 The artifact project – History, science & design inquiry in technology enhanced learning at the elementary level, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen; #7 COFFEE: A software to blend face-to-face and written communication in collaborative problem solving-based scenarios, Beatrice Ligorio; #26 Of joy and responsibility of coming to understand: Transforming from burden to power, Hamdi Erkunt; #52 Are Students’ Discussions on Global Warming a Knowledge Building Discourse? Examining students’ discourse against the discourses of different communities - Nancy Law & Johnny Yuen. LEADER: Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen – Library

Create your own session for Thursday or Friday AM sign-up in Library

12:00-1:15

Room 2-295

Lunch at OISE/University of Toronto

*Read Carl’s paper if you haven’t already!

1:15-2:30

Library

Plenary Session #4

The Knowledge Creating Civilization: A Proposal

PRESENTER: Carl Bereiter

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:45

Various Locations

Design-Mode Meetings II

Small groups analyze Tomorrow’s Innovators sessions from multiple perspectives:

• Deep, cross-discipline understanding of climate change – Room 2-212

• Sustainable and scalable knowledge building communities - Library

• Knowledge building dynamics and assessment - Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL) Lab 3^rd Floor

3:45-4:30

Library

Plenary Session #6: Designs for Tomorrow II

Design teams, teachers and students meet to refine Tomorrow’s Innovators sessions.

Time and

location

Description

Tomorrow’s Innovators

8:00-8:45

Library

Breakfast at OISE/University of Toronto

9:00 Students arrive at OISE/UT

Room: Library

9:30-12:00

Tomorrow’s Innovators session

Room 9-105

8:45-10:15

Various Locations

Session V

Session Va: International Multi-lingual Knowledge Building Cooperation Project (Part 2)

#29 Knowledge building, coélaboration de connaissances où?, Thérèse Laferrière; #39 International cooperation for knowledge building, Mireia Montane; (Two-part session continues from Wednesday at 10:30) – LEADERS: Thérèse Laferrière & Mireia Montane – Library

Session Vb: Analysis of Knowledge Building Networks

#8 Complex network theory approach to the assessment on collective knowledge advancement in CSCL, Jun Oshima; #14 The Knowledge Society Network as a self-organizing network-of-networks, Huang-Yao Hong; #15 Using key terms to measure and visually represent community knowledge, Huang-Yao Hong.

LEADER: Jun Oshima - Room 2-212

Session Vc: Workshop - Customizing the Analysis Tools for Non-English Contexts.

LEADER: Chris Teplovs - Room 2-211
Session Vd: Workshop – What is Knowledge Building?

LEADERS: Jim Hewitt & Earl Woodruff – 2-214

Create your own session for Thursday or Friday AM sign-up in Library

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Various Location

Session VI

Session VIa: Tomorrow’s Innovators Observation Session III – Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL) Lab 3^rd Floor

Session VIb: Poster Session - Room 2-211

#3: Multimedia CSCL tools and methods from a knowledge building perspective. Aleisha Howlett & Dorian Stoilescu.

#4: Knowledge Forum: A new perspective for a younger audience. Fernando Oliveira.

#11: Utilisation d’un plugiciel d’analyse lexicale pour l’évaluation de la compréhension des concepts en science et en univers social chez les élèves : le cas de l’École éloignée en réseau. Stéphane Allaire.

#19: Distance learning as knowledge building. Hamdi Erkunt.

#20: Shared critical assessment of health care research evidence through dialogic knowledge building: Finding collective wisdom in collaborative review of the current medical literature. Peter Pennefather.

#24: Learning by collaborative designing. Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen.

#25: Knowledge building practices appropriation through CSCL for school change and development. Iolanda Garcia Gonzalez.

#28: La nature de la troisième note dans le discours de classes en réseau. Christine Hamel.

#30: An analysis of knowledge advancement in Knowledge Society Network. Yongcheng Gan.

#33: Decolonizing cyberspace: One year later. Alexander McAuley.

#34: Ideas first, what's next? Exploring advances and challenges in creating knowledge building science classrooms in Singapore. Katerine Bielaczyc.

#35: PBL as a strategy for KB based in informatic technology. Oscar Hernandez.

#45: Advances in knowledge building pedagogy in a Grade One classroom. Heather Lott.

#48: Visualizations for knowledge building. Chris Teplovs.

#49: Tag clouds for knowledge building: Web 2.0 meets Knowledge Forum. Chris Teplovs.

#50: Linking Knowledge Forum to a learning management system: Lessons learned from (the) Blackboard. Chris Teplovs.

#51: An innovative faculty development course using knowledge building/Knowledge Forum®: Recommendations from the literature. Zahra Punja, & Roger Strasser.

Create your own session for Thursday or Friday AM sign-up in Library

12:00-12:30

Lunch-

Room 2-295

12:30-1:45

Global Change: Rising Above with Rich Media – Labs 3 & 4

1:45-3:30

Tomorrow’s Innovators Energetics

4:00 Students leave for home

12:00-1:30

Lunch on your own

1:30-2:45

Library

Design-Mode Meeting III

Small groups analyze Tomorrow’s Innovators sessions from multiple perspectives:

• Deep, cross-discipline understanding of climate change – Room 2-212

• Sustainable and scalable knowledge building communities – Library

• Knowledge building dynamics and assessment – Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL) Lab 3^rd Floor

2:45-3:00

Break

3:00-4:00

Various Locations

Plenary Session #6: Designs for Tomorrow III

Design teams, teachers and students meet to refine Tomorrow’s Innovators sessions.

* Extended reports by the Design-mode groups

Time and

location

Description

Tomorrow’s Innovators

8:00-8:45

Library

Breakfast at OISE/University of Toronto

9:00 Students arrive at OISE/UT

Room: Library

9:30-12:00

Tomorrow’s Innovators session

Room 9-105

8:45-10:15

Various Locations

Session VII

Session VIIa: Teacher’s understandings of principle-based innovations

#9 From pre-service to classroom teaching: A five year longitudinal study investigating the practice of progressive problem solving and innovation, Suzanne DeFroy; #27 The development of teacher professional identity through participation in a knowledge building community (in progress), Thérèse Laferrière; #31 Designing social infrastructure: Examining the ways that teachers create knowledge building classrooms, Kate Bielaczyc; #46 Growth in teacher knowledge: A principle-based design experiment, Richard Reeve; #47 Teachers’ understanding of KB in an emerging community, Carol Chan.

LEADERS: Thérèse Laferrière & Clare Brett – Library

Session VIIb: Promoting Deep Understanding

#13 Principle-based design of technology use to support community knowledge-building, Huang-Yao Hong; #32 Drawing out ideas: Student-generated drawings’ roles in supporting understanding of “light”, Yong Cheng Gan; #43 An innovative practice intervention to shift from surface level to deep understanding of interprofessional practice among health care workers in general internal medicine: Challenges and opportunities, Ann Russell; #16 Supporting deep understanding through facilitated knowledge building in an End-of-Life Care Program for Family Physicians, Leila Lax. LEADER: Huang-Yao Hong – Room 2-212

Create your own session – see sign-up in Library

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Various Locations

Session VIII

Session VIIIa: Design Research and Knowledge Building

#17 Cognitive work analysis and design research: Designing for effective human-technology interactions using handhelds in elementary and middle school literacy support classrooms, Latika Nirula; #41 Co-designing a knowledge building activity with secondary school biology teachers, Vanessa Peters & Jim Slotta; #12 Socio digital affordances for the enhancement of pre-service teachers’ collaborative reflective practice and knowledge building, Stéphane Allaire.

LEADER: Latika Nirula - Library

Session VIIIb: Knowledge Building Theory

#1 Situating knowledge building in the context of alternate theories of knowledge, Don Philip; #5 Celebrating the invisible, John Parry; #6 Toward a trialogical approach on learning, Kai Hakkarainen; #18 Knowledge building and reframed conceptual change: A cross fertilization, Chwee Beng Lee. LEADER: Don Philip – Room 2-212

Session VIIIc: “Analysis, Reflection & Tour” (ART Session II)/Tomorrow’s Innovators Observation Session IV

LEADER: Jianwei Zhang & Chew Lee Teo – Site: Barcelona - Knowledge Innovation & Technology Lab (KITL), 3^rd Floor

Create your own session – see sign-up in Library

12:00-1:30

Lunch on your own

12:00-12:30

Lunch-

Room 2-295

12:30-1:30 Prepare for Plenary #10

1:30-2:45

Plenary Session #10

2:45 to 3:15

Reception at the Library

3:15 Students leave for home

1:30-2:45

Library

Plenary Session #10

Tomorrow’s Innovators and Design Team

Students, teachers, researchers, principals & parents

2:45-3:15

Library

Break

3:15-4:00

Closing remarks & slideshow

7:00-11:00

Party at Carl and Marlene’s house

512 Markham St. (see invitation and map)