The overarching question to be addressed this summer is the extent to which an international team can work productively to continually extend the limits of the possible in education. From a knowledge building perspective this requires a fundamental shift from belief- to design-mode: creative work with ideas of one’s own making as well as those of others, moving beyond teacher-driven inquiry AND student-driven inquiry to collaborative idea-driven invention. That’s what makes knowledge building knowledge building rather than learning as we’ve known it historically, or student-driven inquiry as championed in modern educational approaches.

An international team of students and teachers will come to take part in Tomorrow’s Innovators sessions, engineers will tackle challenges of next-generation knowledge visualizations (beyond knowledge sharing to knowledge advancement), and researchers will address issues such as scientific literacy and theory improvement.