| 2008 SCHEDULE
- Upcoming events
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June 26th-28th, 2008: 2008
Summer School "Knowledge Building Communities: ripensare la scuola come comunità di ricerca, Aosta, Italy.
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August 5th-8th, 2008: 2008
Knowledge Building Summer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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PAST EVENTS
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May 23rd, 2008: Virtual Meeting #67 - "Time to listen and, of course, to ask
questions!"
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April 29th, 2008: Virtual Meeting #66 - "How and to what extent
can students improve their own theories"
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March 27th, 2008: Virtual Planning Meeting #65 - "Knowledge Building for Children with Special Needs."
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February 15th, 2008: Virtual Planning Meeting #64 - "Planning Meeting for the 2008 Knowledge Building Summer Institute."
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January 31st, 2008: Virtual Planning Meeting #63 - "Scientific Literacy Planning Meeting."
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| 2007 Schedule
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December 18th, 2007: Virtual Meeting #62 - "Understanding the nature of science and scientific progress."
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November 5th, 2007: Virtual Meeting #61 - "Knowledge Building in Asian Contexts."
Hosted by Jun Oshima, Shizuoka University.
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October 30, 2007: Virtual Meeting #60 - "Core Principles for Knowledge Building
Communities." Co-hosted by Steve Swan and Bill DeSanctis, Jefferson County Public Schools, and Marlene Scardamalia,
OISE/University of Toronto.
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October 9, 2007: Virtual Meeting #59 - "Knowledge Building International Projects." Hosted by Therese Laferriere,
Laval University.
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August 7-10, 2007: 2007 Knowledge Building Summer Institute.
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July 11, 2007: Virtual Meeting #58 - "A Model of Learning for Net Generation Students."
A Virtual Meeting/Webcast in collaboration with the Innovate Journal of Online Education.
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June 27, 2007: Virtual Meeting #57 - "Student Contributions to the Discourse on Global Warming."
Co-hosted by teachers, administrators, and researchers from Barcelona, Hong Kong, Quebec and Toronto.
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May 24, 2007: Virtual Meeting #56 - "Tomorrow's Innovators: An International Design Experiment."
Co-hosted by teachers, principals and researchers from Barcelona, Hong Kong, Quebec, Singapore, and Toronto.
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April 24, 2007: Virtual Planning Meeting #55 - "Decision-Makers Forum." Co-hosted by Richard Reeve, OISE/University of Toronto and Luc Rodrigue, Eastern Township School Board (ETSB) Principal.
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April 2, 2007: Virtual Planning Meeting #54 - "Exploring future collaboration with multimedia curriculum researchers from Mexico."
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February 2, 2007: Virtual Meeting #53 - "Creating a Self-sustaining Professional Development." Co-hosted by teachers and
principals from the Eastern Township School Board -ETSB- and the IKIT Team in Toronto.
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January 23, 2007: Virtual Meeting #52 - "International Knowledge Building Teachers Collaboration." Co-hosted by Nancy Law,
University of Hong Kong, China, and Mireia Montane, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
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January 18, 2007: Virtual Planning Meeting #51 - "Decision-Makers Forum."
Co-hosted by Richard Reeve, OISE/University of Toronto, Robert Kennedy,
Apple Canada, Luc Rodrigue and Andrew Retchless, Eastern Township School
Board (ETSB) Principals.
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| 2006 Schedule
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November 23, 2006: Virtual Meeting #50 - "On-demand assessment of knowledge building processes and progress." Co-hosted by designers,
engineers, researchers and teachers who have worked on the development of the Java-based suite of assessment tools for
Knowledge Forum 4.6.
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October 23, 2006: Virtual Meeting #49 - Roy Pea on "Networked Collaborative Video Analysis as a New Resource for Distributed Intelligence and Learning."
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September 28, 2006: Virtual Planning Meeting #48 - Early Moments in the Construction of a
Knowledge Building Community. Co-hosted by teachers from the Institute of Child Study and OISE/UT researchers.
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August 8th to 11th 2006: Summer Institute on Knowledge Building:
Democratizing Society's Innovative Capacity. Click
here for more information!
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July 25, 2006: Virtual Meeting #47 - Tomorrow's Innovators
(Part 2). Co-hosted by teachers and researchers conducting the TomorrowÃs
Innovators session at the Summer Institute.
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June 19, 2006: Virtual Meeting #46 - Tomorrow's Innovators
(Part 1). Co-hosted by teachers and researchers conducting the TomorrowÃs
Innovators session at the Summer Institute.
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May 24, 2006: Virtual Planning Meeting #45 - Tomorrow's Innovators at
the 2006 Summer Institute. Co-hosted by teachers from the Institute
of Child Study and North Agincourt Public Junior School.
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April 26, 2006: Virtual Meeting #44 - Partnership for systemic professional
development in knowledge building: The Barcelona Experience. Co-hosted
by Thérèse Laferrière (Universite Laval), Begona
Gros (University of Barcelona), Isabel Alvarez (University Autonomous
of Barcelona), and Marlene Scardamalia (OISE/University of Toronto).
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March 16, 2006: VirtualMeeting #43 - Video as a resource for professional
development.Co-hosted by Thérèse Laferrière (Universite
Laval) and Richard Reeve (OISE/University of Toronto).
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February 21, 2006: Virtual Planning Meeting #42 - 2006 Summer Institute
and Summer Camp. Co-hosted by Nancy Law (University of Hong Kong, CITE)
and Marlene Scardamalia (OISE/University of Toronto).
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January 26, 2006: Virtual Meeting #41 - Bootstrapping creative professional
development. Co-hosted by Krista Ruan, Institute of Child Study (ICS),
and Chew Lee Teo (OISE/University of Toronto).
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| 2005 Schedule
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December 2, 2005: Virtual Meeting #40 - Knowledge Building Discourse
and Democratizing Knowledge. Co-hosted by Diane Bestvater and Krista
Dunlop (North Agincourt Junior Public School, Toronto), and Richard
Reeve (OISE/University of Toronto).
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November 21, 2005: Virtual Meeting #39 - Continually Improvable Learning
Objects. Co-hosted by Cesar Nunes (Escola do Futuro - USP, Brazil),
Eric Cooper (Learning In Motion, Inc.), and Chris Teplovs (OISE/University
of Toronto)
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October 31, 2005: Virtual Meeting #38 - Interoperable Knowledge Building
Environments. Co-hosted by Cesar Nunes (Escola do Futuro - USP, Brazil),
Eric Cooper (Learning In Motion, Inc.), and Chris Teplovs (OISE/University
of Toronto)
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September 21, 2005: Virtual Planning Meeting #37 - KSN: Professional
Development. Co-hosted by Jianwei Zhang, Richard Reeve and Marlene Scardamalia
(OISE/University of Toronto).
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August 9-12, 2005: Knowledge Building Summer Institute 2005
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June 23, 2005: Virtual Meeting #36 - "Educational system and use
of technology in Italy." Hosted by Stefano Cacciamani (University
of Valle d'Aosta, Italy).
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June 8, 2005: Virtual Meeting #35 - "International Forum of Policy
Makers." Co-hosted by Carol Chan and Nancy Law (University of Hong
Kong), Jan van Aalst (Simon Fraser University), and Richard Reeve (OISE/University
of Toronto).
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May 23, 2005: Virtual Meeting #34 - "Tomorrow's Innovators Summer
Camp." Co-hosted by Nancy Law and Johnny Yuen (University of Hong
Kong) and Marlene Scardamalia (OISE/University of Toronto).
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April 28, 2005: Virtual Meeting #33 - "The role of Summary Street
in a knowledge-building community." Co-hosted by Eileen Kintch
(Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, USA),
Bev Caswell (Institute for Child Studies), and James McGuire (OISE/University
of Toronto).
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March 30, 2005: Virtual Meeting #32 - "Educational Reforms and
Knowledge Building: Issues and New Directions in Singapore." Hosted
by Chee Kit Looi and colleagues from the National
Institute of Education in Singapore.
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February 24, 2005: Virtual Meeting #31 - "Educational Reforms and
Knowledge Building: Issues and New Directions in Hong Kong." Co-hosted
by Carol Chan (University of Hong Kong) and Jan van Aalst (Simon Fraser
University, Canada). Special guests: KK Chan from EMB (Ministry of Education,
Hong Kong), and Kai-Ming Cheng, Chair of Advisory Committee on Teacher
Education and Qualifications (ACTEQ) Hong Kong.
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January 25, 2005: Virtual Planning Meeting #30 - "Discussion of
goals and objectives in the international learning sciences' community:
Understanding learning from scientific and inter-disciplinary perspectives."
Co-hosted by Chee Kit Looi (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
and Marlene Scardamalia (OISE/University of Toronto).
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January 12, 2005: Virtual Planning Meeting #29 - "Literature review
and research strategy for teacher online discourse." Co-hosted
by Thérèse Laferrière (Universite Laval) and Clare
Brett (OISE/University of Toronto).
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| 2004 Schedule
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December 7, 2004: Virtual Meeting #28 - "International Participatory
Mentoship." Hosted by staff from the Institute of Child Study Lab
School/University of Toronto (ICS) and the Hong Kong University Graduate
Association Elementary School (HKUGA).
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November 25, 2004: Virtual Meeting #27 - "Development of Knowledge
Building Communities across the Knowledge Society Network." Hosted
by Richard Reeve (OISE/University of Toronto), and colleagues from the
Institute of Child Studies/University of Toronto, North Agincourt Public
School and Rose Avenue
Public School.
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November 19, 2004: Virtual Meeting #26 - "Self-Assessment of Knowledge
Building." Hosted by Carol Chan (The University of Hong Kong)
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November 8, 2004: Virtual Meeting #25 - "Diverse Student populations
and Knowledge Building." Hosted by Sandy McAuley (University of
Prince Edward Island, Canada).
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October 29, 2004: Virtual Meeting #24 - "Instructional Design and
Teacher Roles." Hosted by Jan van Aalst (Simon Fraser University,
Canada).
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October 25, 2004: Virtual Meeting #23 - "International Design Experiment:
Assessment of Knowledge Building." Co-hosted by Ann Russell (OISE/University
of Toronto), Peter Blake (Harvard University) and Kate Bielaczyc (Harvard
University).
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October 18, 2004: Virtual Meeting #22 "Unlocking the Knowledge
Building Principles." Co-hosted by Mary Lamon (OISE/University
of Toronto) and Jan van Aalst (Simon Fraser University).
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October 04, 2004: Virtual Meeting #21 "Simulations, Prototyping,
and Knowledge Building." Co-hosted by Richard Reeve (OISE/University
of Toronto - ICS), Pat Clifford, Sharon Friesen (Galileo Educational
Network), and Richard Messina (ICS, OISE/University of Toronto).
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August 10-13, 2004: IKIT
Summer Institute.
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June 18-21, 2004: The Scandinavian Summer Cruise at the Baltic Sea.
Theme: Motivation,
Learning, and Knowledge Building in the 21st Century.
The Karolinska Institute is the local organizer of this conference,
and EARLI and IKIT are co-sponsoring this event.
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May 11, 2004: Virtual Meeting #20 "Mobile Technologies and Pervasive
Knowledge Building." Co-hosted by Tak-wai Chan (EduCities, Taipei,
Taiwan), Earl Woodruff and Bruce Forrester (OISE/University of Toronto,
Canada).
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April 22, 2004: Virtual Meeting #19 "Project-Based Learning and
Knowledge Building." Hosted by Ola Erstad, (University of Oslo,
Norway).
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March 29, 2004: Virtual Meeting #18 "Knowledge Building Innovation
in the Making." Co-hosted by Kai Hakkarainen, Ritva Engeström
(University of Helsinki, Finland) and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (University
of Joensuu, Finland).
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February 24, 2004: Virtual Meeting #17: "Comprehending Difficult
Text as a Task for Collaborative Problem-Solving." Co-hosted by
teachers at the Institute for Child Study Laboratory School of the University
of Toronto, Shizuoka University in Japan, and OISE/University of Toronto.
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January 29, 2004: Virtual Meeting #16: "The Knowledge Society Network:
Testing Our Ability to Move Beyond Best Practice." Hosted by Marlene
Scardamalia, OISE/University of Toronto.
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| 2003 Schedule
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December 12, 2003: Virtual Meeting #15 from Singapore: "Fostering
Knowledge Building Communities - Potentials and Challenges." Hosted
by Dr. Seng Chee Tan (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
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December 11-16, 2003: Presentations
and workshops at the National Institute for Education, Singapore.
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December 3-11, 2003--Presentations
and workshops at the University of Hong Kong, China.
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December 9, 2003--Virtual Meeting #14 from Hong Kong: "Bootstrapping
to knowledge building." Co-hosted by Jan van Aalst (Simon Fraser
University, BC, Canada), and Carol Chan (University of Hong Kong, China)
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December 7, 2003--Presentations
at the 7th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education, Nanjing,
China.
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December 2-9, 2003--Seminars,
Workshops, Presentations at the ICCE 2003 Conference in Hong Kong,
China.
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November 30-December 1, 2003--Presentations
and workshops at
the Taipei World Trade Centre, Taiwan.
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November 29-30, 2003--Keynote
address at the Reform and Initiatives in Teaching and Learning
conference, Macau, China.
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| November 18, 2003- Virtual Meeting #13: Conceptual Change. Hosted
by Nancy Law (Centre for IT in School and Teacher Education, University
of Hong Kong.).
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October 28, 2003- Virtual Meeting #12: Designs for Idea Improvement.
Hosted by teachers from North Agincourt Junior Public School and the
Institute of Child Study Laboratory School, Toronto, Canada.
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October 24, 2003- Virtual Meeting #11: Harnessing Technology to Promote
Model-Based Learning and Scientific Literacy. Hosted by Janice Gobert
(Concord Consortium, USA).
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September 30, 2003- Virtual Meeting #10: Understanding Design Research.
Hosted by Allan Collins (Northwestern University and Harvard Graduate
School of Education).
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September 9, 2003- Virtual Planning Meeting #09: Embedded & Transformative
Assessment
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August 26-30, 2003- EARLI conference, Padova, Italy. Presentations
by IKIT members.
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August 12-15, 2003- Summer
Institute: "Beyond Best Practice"
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June 26, 2003- Virtual Meeting #08: Theoretical Foundations of Learning
and Knowledge Building. Hosted by Kai Hakkarainen and his team (Liisa
Ilomäki, Lasse Lipponen, and Sami Paavola) from the Centre for Research
on Networked Learning and Knowledge Building, University of Helsinki,
Finland
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June 5, 2003- Virtual Meeting #07: Telementoring-A Knowledge Building
Approach. Hosted by Kevin O'Neill (Simon Fraser University, Canada).
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May 29, 2003- Virtual Planning Meeting #06: ICCE
Conference in Hong Kong. Hosted by Nancy Law (Centre for IT in School
and Teacher Education, University of Hong Kong.)
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May 9, 2003-Virtual Meeting #05: Exploring the Knowledge Society Model
in Health Care. Co-hosted by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the
Hamilton Health Sciences network in Canada. |
April 29, 2003-Virtual Meeting #04: Early Efforts and New Directions. |
April 15, 2003-Virtual Meeting #03: Epistemic Agency. Hosted by teachers from the Institute of
Child Study Laboratory School, Canada. |
April 8, 2003-Virtual Meeting #02: Professional Development: Bridging the Gap Between Research
and Practice. |
April 1, 2003-Virtual Meeting #01: Knowledge Building Theory. |
