Constructing Modern Knowledge is a minds-on institute for educators committed to creativity, collaboration, and computing. Each year since 2008, educators from around the globe have gathered at CMK for four intense days of learning-by-doing with a world-class faculty, mind-blowing guest speakers, cutting-edge technology, and a mountain of materials. These educators often achieve the impossible and demonstrate the remarkable creativity, competence, and capability found in classrooms. Join us and learn why some educators have returned to CMK for as many as ten times!
CMK is about action...
Rather than spend days listening to a series of speakers, Constructing Modern Knowledge is about action. Attendees will work and interact with educational experts concerned with maximizing the potential of every learner.
While our outstanding faculty is comprised of educational pioneers, bestselling authors and inventors of educational technologies we depend on, the real power of Constructing Modern Knowledge emerges from the collaborative project development of participants.
CMK is about empowered educators empowering students...
Constructing Modern Knowledge is built upon the Piagetian admonition that "knowledge is a consequence of experience." If we wish for educators to teach and lead differently, they need to experience learning in the fashion they aspire to for their students.
CMK is about powerful ideas in education...
Each day’s program consists of a discussion of powerful ideas, mini tutorials on-demand, immersive learning adventures designed to challenge one’s thinking, substantial time for project work, and a reflection period.
The Gold Standard for Project-Based Learning & STEM...
Constructing Modern Knowledge has always been a place where educators invent the future by creating “real” projects using cutting-edge computational technology, craft materials, and assorted junk.The things created are sophisticated learning artifacts, even when whimsical.
CMK is where educators take off their teacher hat, put on their learner hat, and experience the power and intellectual benefits that come from project-based learning. Educators return to school not only with new skills, often on the frontiers of STEM, but reenergized, optimistic, and more effective creators of productive contexts for learning.
CMK is about computing and technology in the service of learning...
21st century educators need to develop their own technological fluency and understand learning in order to meet the changing needs and expectations of their students.
Constructing Modern Knowledge will help participants enhance their tech skills, expand their vision of how computers may enhance the learning environment and leave with practical ideas to use in the classroom. Beginners and advanced technology-using educators can all benefit from this experience. Bring your laptop, digital camera/video camera, and imagination!
CMK is about constructing knowledge in the modern world...
Gary Stager founded the Constructing Modern Knowledge institute in 2008 to create a unique model of professional development that honors the learner as the center of the learning experience.
Powerful ideas explored at CMK...
