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?
Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI --- What Complex Systems Concepts Are Needed in Education? (15 min)
Jim Kaput - UMass --- Massive Educational Innovation: Challenges & Opportunities (15 min)
Uri Wilensky --- Developing a Modeling Mindset (15 min)
Jay Lemke, Terrence Deacon, --- Complex Systems implications for Educational Innovation and Design
Brief (2-4 minute) images from projects
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
Discussion Group II: Research issues---Complex systems content: What should be in the core & how should a "core" be defined?
Discussion Group III: Research issues---Implementing deep, systemic education innovation
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:
Yaneer Bar-Yam - NECSI
Liz Bradley - Univ of Colorado
John Cerniavsky - NSF
John Choate - Groton School
Jack Cohen - University of Warwick
Jere Confrey - UT Austin
Terrence Deacon - BU
Andy diSessa - Berkeley
Helen Doerr - Syracuse
Michael Eisenberg - U. of Colorado
Josh Epstein - Brookings
Wally Feurzeig - BBN
Paul Horwitz - Concord Consortium
Beverly Hunter - BC
Michael Jacobson - U. Georgia
Atlee Jackson - University of Illinois
Eric Jakobsson - NCSA
Jay Jaroslav - NECSI
Jim Kaput - UMass Dartmouth
Eamonn Kelley - NSF
Joe Krajcik - U of MI & NARST
Jay Lemke - CUNY
Roger Lewin & Birute Regine - Harvard
Dick Lesh - Purdue
Gottfried Mayer-Kress - Penn State University
David Meyer - UCSD
Ricardo Nemirovsky - TERC
Otto-Heinz Peitgen - Florida Atlantic University
Mitch Resnick - MIT
Alex Repenning - Colorado
George Richardson - SUNY Albany
Nancy Roberts - Lesley
Nora Sabelli - NSF
Judah Schwartz - Harvard
Eliott Soloway - U. Michigan
Bob Tinker - Concord Consortium
Sheldon White - Harvard
Uri Wilensky - Tufts
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