5-8 August, 2008, Toronto , Canada

We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Summer Institute on Knowledge Building. This international event is organized by the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT), and will be held at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, August 5th-8th, 2008, with a pre-conference technology workshop August 4th.
*Keeping Idea Improvement Alive in a Worldwide Knowledge-Building Community*

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.

Detailed information including our Call for Research Papers and Posters can be found at our website: <http://ikit.org/SummerInstitute2008>.

On August 4th there will be a pre-conference technology workshop. We have been meeting with teams involved in the Open Learning Initiative (see http://www.cmu.edu/oli/overview/) and preparing Knowledge Forum to support a broad host of collaborative co-design initiatives. The goals of the workshop are (1) to generate ideas for the next generation of Knowledge Forum and related visualization and assessment technology and (2) to organize an international "community source" initiative to implement these ideas.  For more information contact  Chris Teplovs <chris.teplovs@utoronto.ca>.
Please send any questions to <SummerInstitute@ikit.org>.

The success of this conference requires your involvement. We welcome comments, suggestions and ideas about how we may ensure the agenda meets your interests and needs. We look forward to seeing everyone this summer!
Summer Institute 2008 Program Committee Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology

 Important Dates:
June 9, 2008 -- Deadline for Submissions
June 23, 2008 -- Acceptance notification
July 4, 2008 -- Deadline for early registration AND hotel reservation at the Holiday Inn's conference rate
July 25, 2008 -- Deadline for mail-in payment
August 4, 2008 -- Pre-Conference Workshop
August 5-8, 2008 -- Knowledge Building Summer Institute