Seeing the Meta-Level: How Knowledge Becomes Collective

​This session explores the meta-level of learning and sensemaking: the layer where individual discoveries become shared knowledge, where meaning is negotiated, and where collective understanding evolves over time.

​Jack Park will walk the participants through concrete scenarios showing how different people encounter the same information, make sense of it differently, and gradually build a shared knowledge graph through annotation, inference, challenge, and revision. The session reveals how knowledge is not simply “stored” or “retrieved,” but constructed through conversation, context, and justification.

​Participants will explore how a meta-level make this process visible and participatory—supporting epistemic communities, trust, and collective learning without centralization. We’ll look at how concepts evolve, how disagreements surface productively, and how shared representations stabilize over time.

​This is not a technical deep dive, but a conceptual and practical tour of how learning scales from individuals to communities—and why the meta-level is essential for the future of education, governance, and AI-aligned knowledge systems.

​This session is for educators, researchers, technologists, systems thinkers, and anyone interested in how collective intelligence actually forms.