January 2026 – Knowledge Building International

GROWING GLOBAL INNOVATION NETWORKS

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

Details for the Knowledge Building Summer Institute (KBSI2026) are Out!
“Re-envisioning Education Through Knowledge Building-AI Innovation”

Knowledge Building International https://ikit.org/kbi/ is a global community of scholars, researchers, teachers, educators, engineers, and policymakers dedicated to collaboratively creating and advancing Knowledge Building innovation. We meet annually at the Knowledge Building Summer Institute (KBSI) to celebrate progress and advance the frontiers of our understanding and accomplishments.

The 2026 KBSI focuses on Knowledge Building as a meta-level framework that bridges theory, design, and practice for re-envisioning education. We aim to build synergistic efforts to address contemporary challenges—advancing Knowledge Building; integrating generative AI; supporting teacher innovation; driving curriculum change; designing analytics for concurrent, embedded, and transformative assessment; and enriching related designs (e.g., STEM, design-based thinking) for systemic innovation.

The 2026 KBSI will be held both onsite and online for international participants and local Chinese participants. KBSI will take place at the following on-site venues.

March 24-25, 2026: Nanjing Normal University, hosting invited talks, paper presentations, panel discussions, and researcher-teacher dialogues March 26-27, 2026: Nanjing Normal University Affiliated Hanjiang Experimental School, which will open its classrooms, including virtual visits to both international and local participants
Organizing Committee: Carol Chan, Chew Lee Teo, Seng Chee Tan, Jianwei Zhang, Bodong Chen.

1. Detailed Information and Call for Proposals and Papers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJZsALBa6gPFJ9CFVd0InHNnMG_cjnVI/edit

2. Expressions of InterestTo help us manage administrative arrangements, the Organizing Committee would appreciate a quick indication of interest from those planning to attend the event in person, especially participants travelling from outside China.By Dec 22: Indication of interest to submit, attendance onsite or online: https://forms.gle/oPP3BELBm5oSCpat7

3. Submission Form for proposals and papers:https://forms.gle/Q9v8kvTsLFM8vK8s5

IMPORTANT DATES
Dec 17: Call for KBSI 2026 Symposium, Papers, and Poster
Dec 22: Indication of interest to submit – attendance onsite or online [https://forms.gle/oPP3BELBm5oSCpat7]
Jan 18: Submission Deadline for papers, posters, and symposiums
Jan 30: Submission Deadline for practitioner papers and video stories
Feb 27: Announcement and Feedback from Reviewers on papers/symposiums/posters
Feb 28: Announcement and Feedback from Reviewers on practitioner papers/video stories
March 3: Registration for KBSI 2026 (presenters and participants need to be KBI members)
March 15: Presenters upload materials to Knowledge Forum: (a) accepted papers illustrated with PowerPoint presentations (10-15 slides), digital posters, and video stories.
March 16-24: Knowledge Forum opened for pre-conference interactions and knowledge building.

Questions may be addressed to: Carol Chan: [email protected] and Chew Lee Teo: [email protected]

We have had an amazing year of collaboration, conversation, and idea building with our global community through our monthly KB Connects sessions. Thank you to all participants and contributors for making these virtual meetings such a success.
Here is your chance to catch up on any KB Connects sessions you may have missed this year! If you have any trouble accessing any of these videos, please email Monica at [email protected]

January – Toronto Team PhD Presentations – Stacy Costa and Rob Huang
February – Knowledge Building Modelling (KMB) to Enhance Systems Thinking
March – Columbia – Canada Classroom Collaboration
April – Knowledge Building International Project (KBIP) – Catalonia
May – Knowledge Building Summer Institute (KBSI) Updates
July – Open AI and Knowledge Building
August – Knowledge Building Discussion Parties
September – Education for Sustainable Development; KB Discussion Parties
October – Knowledge Building and Generative AI
November – Collaborative Knowledge Building Group (Italy); KBSI Updates
December – Melvin Chan – Knowledge Building in History and Social Studies Knowledge Building Connects invites you to join our next meeting on Tuesday, January 15th at 7:00 pm ET.

You’re welcome to forward this invitation to others in Ontario, across Canada, and internationally who may be interested.The agenda for this meeting will be forwarded to those on the email list for the session.

If you missed the last meeting on December 16th, you can watch the full video here.

Knowledge Building Discussion Parties will continue into 2026 in the form of collaborative Design Labs!
Please contact Ro Replan at [email protected] on how to get involved in the new year.

UPCOMING EVENTS
International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS 2026)

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