New Knowledge Building Initiatives Around the World News and Introductions

Marlene ScardamaliaInstitute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology IKITUniversity of Toronto - IKIT Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation (BCCI) aims to go beyond 21st century skills to address the needs of a knowledge societyInternational design, research, and development effort to build cultural capacity for innovation in developing and developed nations, at all educational and socioeconomic levelsA research-intensive enterprise, with research used not only to evaluate but also to create innovationsDedicated to the 21st-century principle of knowledge for public goodDesign ChallengesSignificant parallel advances in basics and advanced knowledge work across diverse student populations All students engaged in sustained creative work with ideasStudents taking collective responsibility for idea improvementYearly measurable advances in knowledge practices and outcomesContrasting BeliefsBasics must be mastered before higher-level work with ideasKnowledge creation is only for the fewIdea improvement is primarily the teachers responsibilityStandards are set in advance and best practices are applied by teachers to achieve themThink Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation BCCI Requires building a critical mass of active support

Must remain closely in touch with the whole knowledge building community

2014 KBI includes planning sessions for launching BCCI

think tanks will be devoted to concrete action plans for BCCI as it relates to KBI and other knowledge building initiativesTwo sessions in which 4 think tank groups will formulate concrete plans and solutions for core issues

Wednesday 10:00 to 11:30Thursday 13:30 to 15:00

The last 30 minutes of each session will be devoted to brief progress reports

Thursday an international panel of current and prospective partners

Objects of the new non-profit will be based on plans created

Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation The Knowledge Building design community includes universities, institutes, school boards, ministries of education, principals' councils, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, as well as a number of committed individuals.

The plan in a nutshell joint ventures to extend the range of the possible in education ensure that Knowledge Building/knowledge creation innovations are available, free, and open to all establish progressive, research-intensive design lab and testbedsThink Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Infrastructure A self-sustaining non-profit to operate in complementary relation to Knowledge Building International (KBI) Contributions from the international team drive innovations BCCI exchange program: In recognition of contributions BCCI will provide benefits such as research assistance, feature articles, online mentoring and support, Knowledge Forum server hosting Money earned from contributions (e.g., course lectures, workshops, design and programming contributions) will be held in a central BCCI account. Contributors will have a voice and priority call on time of personnel, proportional to the amount and type of contribution Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Think Tanks

Each facet of the proposed plan includes (a) Design Issues and Challenges, (b) "Provisional Plan, and (c) Related sessions).

The last column--Please add your name so that you are a member of at least one think tank team

Four different break-out groups. We will come together toward the end of the session for 30 minutes to exchange summaries and set next steps. During each break-out session teams will need to identify one person to present a summary statement to the whole group. Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation

Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan A globally distributed, diverse network must function as a coherent entity able to

create and refine principle-based Knowledge Building know-how/know-why;

continually improve resources resulting from design iterations rather than work with static examples

create research-based results; newsworthy stories; rise aboveCreate income through professional development and knowledge mobilization.

Provide credentials for teachers, administrators, and service providers wishing to take leadership roles in Knowledge Building/knowledge creation.

Support online mentoring, co-design, and just-in-time PD

Team Challenges

Think Tank 1: Professional Development and Knowledge Mobilization

Inquiry-Based Learning and Knowledge Creation

Is there a difference? If so, what is it?Context: Ministry of Education mandate to improve literacy, numeracysupportive context for inquiry learning

Ontario Principals Associations (ADFO, CPCO, OPC)Leading School Achievement (LSA) project

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AUTHENTIC PROBLEMS

A magazine shows a graph (below) for the fuel efficiency of 4 types of cars. Which car would be the most efficient for driving from Toronto to New York City?

In one forest, a certain pair of rabbits breeds. The population of these rabbits grows by 10 rabbits every month. In another forest, another pair of rabbits breed. The population of these rabbits increases by 1 the first month, by 3 in the second month, by 5 in the third month, and so forth. Which population of rabbits is predicted to be larger in 5 years?

Key features:Mostly individual, not cooperative effort.Repetitiveness in comments.Q -> A Limited build on; no rise above.Failure to appreciate contrasts between problems/answers

Mathematical operationsQuestion wordsLinear / proportional reasoningDiscussion-relatedaddwholinearagreesubtractwhatnon-lineardisagreemultiplywheredifferenceyesdividewhenconstant differencenowhysame differencebecausehowrate explainhow manyslopeevidencehow muchintersectionunderstandhow do you knowintersectexamplewhat ifpatternI wonderI thinkmy opinionequationInquiry to Knowledge Creation: Evolving ModelsDimensions: Questioning: Q&A -> Progressive Uncovering of Deeper Issues Research: Confirm Belief -> Iterative Design and Development References: Single Source -> Multiple Documents Necessitating Explanatory Coherence Problem Space: Well Defined (teacher knows the answer) ->Ill-Defined (journey of discovery)Regulatory Functions: Teacher Regulation -> Student Agency Social Structure: Individual Effort -> Collective Responsibility Curricular Goals: Target Goal -> Wonderment Assessment: Right Answer -> Promising IdeasModels reflected in Analytic Tools: Questioning: Shallow Inquiry -> Extended Inquiry Threads Research/References: Isolated -> Interconnected Problem Space: Knowledge Telling/Linear & Sequential ->Knowledge Transforming Discourse/Dynamic & InteractiveRegulatory Functions: Teacher at Center of Discourse-> Distributed Opportunistic Social Network Social Structure: Low Cohesiveness-> High Cohesiveness References/ Assessment: Narrow Semantic Space-> Expanding Semantic SpaceInquiry to Knowledge Creation: Evolving ModelsFew Central Resources; No Building On

Note ReadingBuilding-on (Responding)Connected Network of Resources/Reading and Building On

Note ReadingBuilding-on (Responding)

Individual inquiry to collective responsibility of community knowledgeMapping Clusters of Idea Threads of the Community, and Updating the Threads in Reflection of New Progress

Second ITM sessionFirst ITM sessionITM-Aided Metadiscourse Informs Progressive Questioning to Address Increasingly Complex IssuesStructure-Behavior(Mechanism)-Function Coding of Questions about the Human Body as a Complex System: More complex questions were generated in ITM reflection than in prior KF discourseZhang et al., 2014Deeper questionsLight Up the Curriculum

Light up Curriculum Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan A globally distributed, diverse network must function as a coherent entity able to

create and refine principle-based Knowledge Building know-how/know-why;

continually improve resources resulting from design iterations rather than work with static examples

create research-based results; newsworthy stories; rise aboveCreate income through professional development and knowledge mobilization.

Provide credentials for teachers, administrators, and service providers wishing to take leadership roles in Knowledge Building/knowledge creation.

Support online mentoring, co-design, and just-in-time PD

Team Challenges;

Think Tank 1: Professional Development and Knowledge Mobilization Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan Knowledge Building hubs of innovation (KB-HOI's) include in- and out-of-school educational settings, elementary to post-secondary levels.

Participants work together to produce knowledge rather than focus exclusively on individual/local achievement.

A spirit of openness and collaboration; students/workers focused on social and technological innovation--beyond "how to" to iterative design-test-redesign cycles.Establish, as a norm for interaction, sustained creative advances in knowledge and practice.

The signature KB Hub: yearly, measurable advances in principled practice, mirrored by advances in achievement.

Local context: collect survey, baseline, and interview data and providing analysis in light of advances measured and reported yearly (BCCI will, in turn, provide courses and workshops to aid in these activities). Think Tank 2: Knowledge Building Hubs of Innovation Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan Support the global partnership through securing agreements that allow data (from online work and video capture of face-to-face discourse) to inform network-wide research and development. Team Challenge: Improve the attached document: Knowledge Building Hubs of Innovation: Where education for innovation becomes a realityProvide suggestions for ways in which we might gather exemplary work and support data analysis and interactionsThink Tank 2: Knowledge Building Hubs of Innovation An overused, never replicated (?) result Can we make such progress commonplace?Year 1: Specialized-groupCliques (sub-communities)

The teacherSocial Network AnalysesNEED TO SEE WHAT PROGRAM WAS USED TO PRODUCE THIS VISUALIZATIONYear 2: Interacting-group

The teacherYear 3: opportunistic-collaboration

The teacherStudent ideas were rated based on scientificness and depth/complexity. (F(2, 63) = 5.69, p < .01, 2 = 0.15). Mean number of inquiry themes about which a student reported knowledge advances in his/her portfolio note (F(2, 63) = 64.14, p < .001).

Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan Collective goal: develop an educational software environment that mirrors conditions of the surrounding open, innovation-driven, knowledge society and that is maximally conducive to knowledge creation.

Incorporate analytic tools that provide a support for sustained engagement leading to advances in knowledge and practice. Development priorities: Defined by contributions--typically grants, contracts/sub-contracts. Open source community infrastructure: Manager and websites. Development environment: "Knowledge Forum Development Overview".Proposed license arrangement: GNU Lesser General Public License (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html ) PrioritiesThink Tank 3: Open Source Software and Assessment

Alan Lius Presentation entitled This is Not a Book: Transliteracies and Long Forms of Digital Attention, during the Colloque Translittraties: enjeux de citoyennet et de crativit at ENS-Cachan et Universit Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, November 2012.

Alan Lius Presentation entitled This is Not a Book: Transliteracies and Long Forms of Digital Attention, during the Colloque Translittraties: enjeux de citoyennet et de crativit at ENS-Cachan et Universit Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, November 2012.

Alan Lius Presentation entitled This is Not a Book: Transliteracies and Long Forms of Digital Attention, during the Colloque Translittraties: enjeux de citoyennet et de crativit at ENS-Cachan et Universit Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, November 2012.Ideas at the Center/Knowledge Building seen Through the Transliteracy LensIdea diversity -> ideas in complex configurations; need to deal with complexityIdea improvement -> information beyond given resources and grade level; search/read to solve problems; design researchMultiple information sources -> need to analyze authoritative source information Complex discourse -> need to deal with metadiscourse and promising ideasMultiple explanations -> need support for explanatory coherence/rise above

Picture extracted from Alisa Acostas video: Knowledge Forum Next Generation, 2012.

Picture extracted from Alisa Acostas video: Knowledge Forum Next Generation, 2012.

Picture extracted from Alisa Acostas video: Knowledge Forum Next Generation, 2012.

Picture extracted from Alisa Acostas video: Knowledge Forum Next Generation, 2012.Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan Proposition--engaging students as knowledge creators can produce knowledge creation achievements superior to other educational models, in addition to advances in literacy, numeracy and what are popularly known as 21st century skills.

Research-based advances will span elementary to tertiary sites, all subject areas, a broad range of socio-economic levels and sectors and include great cultural and linguistic diversity. Think Tank 4: Teachers Inventions, Students Discoveries, and Big Data Repository Think Tank Sessions: Building Cultural Capacity for Innovation Design Issue and Challenge Provisional Plan Databanks will support graduate student research at all levels and enable match-making between practitioners and researchers

The data repository should be the world's most valuable resource for studying knowledge creation in education

Educational tourism, media coverage, and a digital newsroomBCCI news and research will be based on user contributions to BCCI centralized databanks.

All data will be anonymized at both individual and organization levels; ethics approval

Team Challenge:incentives for teachers and students to contribute and making it easy for them to do so.

Note any local or general ethics issues that need to be addressedThink Tank 4: Teachers Inventions, Students Discoveries, and Big Data Repository