Organizers: Jim Kaput, Sheldon White, Uri Wilensky, Michael Jacobson,Yaneer Bar-Yam

June 18 - 20, 1999, MIT Endicott House

Program

Friday June 18: 5:00-9:00PM Reception, dinner and brief agenda-setting talks/presentations

  • Chair: Sheldon White - Harvard University

  • Introductory Remarks from NSF --- What Are the Hard Questions?

    1. Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI --- What Complex Systems Concepts Are Needed in Education? (15 min)

    2. Jim Kaput - UMass --- Massive Educational Innovation: Challenges & Opportunities (15 min)

    3. Uri Wilensky --- Developing a Modeling Mindset (15 min)

    4. Jay Lemke, Terrence Deacon, --- Complex Systems implications for Educational Innovation and Design

    5. Brief (2-4 minute) images from projects

    6. Discussion of Working Group Structure and Outcomes

  • After 9:00PM - Playing with project toys, viewing videos

Saturday June 1 8: 8:00AM-5:30PM

  • Chair: Sheldon White - Harvard University

  • Charge to the Discussion Groups: Jim Kaput and Sheldon White

  • Discussion Group I: Research issues---Teaching, learning, cognition & classrooms

    1. Discussion Group II: Research issues---Complex systems content: What should be in the core & how should a "core" be defined?

    2. Discussion Group III: Research issues---Implementing deep, systemic education innovation

    3. Discussion Group IV: Framing a national initiative, programs & policy (late Saturday)

  • Reports from Discussion Groups (30 min.)

  • Lunch (1 hr)

  • Repeat Discussion Groups (movement among groups allowed) (3 hours)

  • Reports from Discussion Groups (30 min.)

  • Writing and collating written reports through the evening for distribution before breakfast Sun.

Sunday June 19: 8AM-Noon:

  • Report from Discussion Group IV

  • Discussion of Draft Documents from Groups I-III

  • Design of the Public Conference

  • Assignments for follow-up work

The meeting will produce an outline document entitled: Agenda for a National Initiative on Complex Systems in K-16 education, that will be the basis for the follow-up concept papers as well as the follow-up conference. The concept papers will be widely distributed both in print and on the WWW via a site that will also point to relevant sites around the world.

Confirmed participants:

  1. Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI

  2. Liz Bradley - Univ of Colorado

  3. John Cerniavsky - NSF

  4. John Choate - Groton School

  5. Jack Cohen - University of Warwick

  6. Jere Confrey - UT Austin

  7. Terrence Deacon - BU

  8. Andy diSessa - Berkeley

  9. Helen Doerr - Syracuse

  10. Michael Eisenberg - U. of Colorado

  11. Josh Epstein - Brookings

  12. Wally Feurzeig - BBN

  13. Paul Horwitz - Concord Consortium

  14. Beverly Hunter - BC

  15. Michael Jacobson - U. Georgia

  16. Atlee Jackson - University of Illinois

  17. Eric Jakobsson - NCSA

  18. Jay Jaroslav - NECSI

  19. Jim Kaput - UMass Dartmouth

  20. Eamonn Kelley - NSF

  21. Joe Krajcik - U of MI & NARST

  22. Jay Lemke - CUNY

  23. Roger Lewin & Birute Regine - Harvard

  24. Dick Lesh - Purdue

  25. Gottfried Mayer-Kress - Penn State University

  26. David Meyer - UCSD

  27. Ricardo Nemirovsky - TERC

  28. Otto-Heinz Peitgen - Florida Atlantic University

  29. Mitch Resnick - MIT

  30. Alex Repenning - Colorado

  31. George Richardson - SUNY Albany

  32. Nancy Roberts - Lesley

  33. Nora Sabelli - NSF

  34. Judah Schwartz - Harvard

  35. Eliott Soloway - U. Michigan

  36. Bob Tinker - Concord Consortium

  37. Sheldon White - Harvard

  38. Uri Wilensky - Tufts

Back to Planning Meeting for a National Initiative on Complex Systems in K-16 Education main page