Play Make Learn 2019: Full Schedule

8:00am

Registration

Thursday August 8, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am
Varsity Lounge

9:00am

Keynote- Breaking the Table: Uncovering the Hidden Innovators

Winnie Karanja is the Founder and Executive Director of Maydm, an organization that equips girls and students of color with the technical skills and experiences to pursue opportunities in STEM. With her background in education and technology, Winnie is devoted to improving her community through STEM learning. Maydm hosts classes, workshops, and events with the goal of empowering students to follow their dreams. Winnie's new initiative, Pioneer Possibilities, brings learning to families' doorsteps, providing elementary aged students with packaged interactive learning experiences to build a foundation for STEM learning.

Speakers

Winnie Karanja

Founder and Executive Director of Maydm, Madym

Thursday August 8, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am
Varsity Hall I&II

Keynote Presentation

9:50am

Arcade

Speakers

The Bubbler

Madison Public Library

Field Day

Gear Learning

Thursday August 8, 2019 9:50am - 10:05am
Varsity Hall III

Arcade

10:00am

Learning Under the Hood: Creating an AR Diesel Engine for Students

Pop the hood on any car or truck and you see the engine. What you can’t see is how the engine works. You can’t look at it while it’s running, you can’t easily teach this in a lecture or by telling students to read their textbooks, and there aren’t many diesel resources available for instructors. Many industries face similar problems – how to teach what the learner can’t see.

In this session, you’ll learn how AR models can solve problems in engineering, industry, and mechanical professions. You’ll experience our FVTC HoloDiesel – the Microsoft Hololens AR Diesel Engine, learn from our dilemmas, and have an opportunity to discuss how the project impacted our Diesel students.

Speakers

Kristina Wilson

Digital Learning Content Editor, Fox Valley Technical College

Josh Janikowski

Fox Valley Technical College

Thursday August 8, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Presentation

10:00am

Multidimensional Maker Learning

The number of opportunities for makerspace activities can be overwhelming. Should they be open-ended challenges or directive projects. How are tinkering, design thinking and the engineering process related? Gain perspective on long and short term activities with high or low structure and how they fit into a Maker Learning Matrix. We'll finish with a rapid innovation challenge.

Speakers

Dennis Rockhill

Makerspace Director, The Einstein Project

After 20+ years in packaging design and production. I opened a youth-focused makerspace to help develop design thinking and a maker's mindset in our communities. See what the Maker Learning framework looks like and how it brings together makerspace initiatives with well-known learning... Read More →

Thursday August 8, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

10:00am

Standards-based learning in Maker Spaces as a Tool for Equity

Makerspaces provide an amazing opportunity to support equity by connecting to students’ interests and identities. Often they can push that equity opportunity even further by offering engaging connections to grade-level science and mathematics standards.

Speakers

Kevin Anderson

Science Education Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Dr. Anderson currently works as the Science Education Consultant at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). He enjoys helping educators improve science programs and instruction to support all students in making sense of the world and solving problems. In his position... Read More →

Play Make Learn 8 8 19 pptx

Thursday August 8, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Presentation

10:00am

Making Observations: Identifying and observing learning in makerspaces

This workshop brings together two informal sites (a library and museum) working with educators to develop and use tools for assessment and evaluation of learning and/or engagement in makerspaces. Through the use of the tools, participants will compare the different foci of the tools through discussion, reflect on the applicability to their own spaces and suggest adaptations to the tools that they might be able to implement for use with their colleagues.

Speakers

Evelyn Ronning

Science Museum of Minneapolis

Peter Wardrip

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Peter Wardrip is an Assistant Professor of STEAM Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Formally, he was a Learning Scientist at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. He currently co-leads Agency by Design Pittsburgh with Dr. Jeff Evancho. His research focuses on informal/formal... Read More →

Caitlin Martin

Martin Research and Design Services

Lisa Brahms

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Eric Reyes

YOUMedia at Chicago Public Library

Ephran Ramirez

YOUMedia at Chicago Public Library

Thursday August 8, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Landmark 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

10:00am

The Mongol Matrix Game: Matrix Games for Historical Thinking

Matrix games are powerful tools for learning in multiple contexts. This session will allow participants to try out The Mongol Matrix Game, a simulation of a seminal event in Russian history designed for undergraduates. Student players in the Mongol Matrix Game take on the role of one of five factions contending for supremacy during the 13th century Mongol Invasion of Russia; all action is overseen by a teacher playing the role of Game Master. This Play, Make, Learn session is most useful for undergraduate and graduate educators who teach in disciplines that require reasoned argumentation and quick thinking. The session will begin with a quick orientation to matrix game methodology. Participants will get to play 1-2 rounds of the game to experience the challenges involved. The session will conclude with Q&A between the participants and the presenter.

Speakers

Raymond Kimball

Director, Center for Junior Officers, US Military Academy

We steward online spaces that let Army junior officers connect with one another anywhere in the world at any time on any device. Through our work in those communities, we spin out new leader development techniques and new learning technologies to West Point and the Army. Ask me about... Read More →

Thursday August 8, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Industry 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

11:00am

Beyond Rubrics: Embedded assessment for maker learning

While there are many benefits of making and makerspaces, one of the greatest challenges of implementing making in K–12 schools is the question of how to assess collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and iterative making practices and outcomes. This session will share tools and lessons from a research project aims to address the lack of assessment strategies in making contexts.

Speakers

Yoon Jeon "YJ" Kim

Executive Director, MIT Playful Journey Lab

Dr. YJ Kim is the executive director of the MIT Playful Journey Lab (playful.mit.edu). Her work has centered on the topic of innovative assessment and how technological advancement influences what we are measuring about student learning and how we are measuring it. For more than ten... Read More →

Stephanie Chang

Maker Ed

Thursday August 8, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

11:00am

Protocols to Maker Educator Professional Learning

Protocols are structured routines that facilitate discussions among educators about student learning and instructional practice. In this workshop, we will engage participants in protocols developed for maker educators in Agency by Design Pittsburgh, a maker educator learning community. These protocols allow us to discuss maker learning through sharing and reflecting on documentation of student work.

Speakers

Peter Wardrip

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Jeffrey Evancho

Thursday August 8, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Landmark 3rd Floor

Presentation

11:00am

Civic Mirror: You are the the country

A demonstration of the Civic Mirror a govt, economics, and life curriculum on an online platform.

Speakers

Aaron Kaio

Shabazz High School

Thursday August 8, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

11:00am

Curriculum Integrated Making

This workshop will present recent design based research conducted in an elementary school with second grade students on designing and implementing a curriculum integrated making kit. This kit was aligned to Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core Literacy Standards. Participants in this workshop will learn about the research and engage with the making activity. Participants will leave prepared to build and implement a making activity in their own educational spaces.

Speakers

Amy Smith

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday August 8, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

11:00am

Google for Transformation

Teachers are truly innovative and amazing! Come discover the transformational projects and ideas featuring the Google Suite of Apps that teachers have used to amplify teaching and learning in the classroom. Projects, templates and examples galore will be shared. Join us and explore the Google infused classroom of today.

Speakers

Scott Fernholz

Digital Learning Coach, MMSD

Scott Fernholz is a Digital LearningTechnology Coach and Google Educator in the Madison Metropolitan School District. As a teacher, he taught a wide variety of IT courses, including finding his real passion in offering a one of a kind Web2.0--21st Century Literacies course almost... Read More →

Eric Benedict

Digital Learning Coach, MMSD

Former high school chemistry teacher/track coach who loves sharing how technology can help student engagement.

Thursday August 8, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

12:00pm

Lunch

Thursday August 8, 2019 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Varsity Hall I&II

Meal

12:00pm

Screen Print A Play Make Learn Souvenir Tote Bag

Make your way to the arcade to screen print a souvenir you can enjoy all year!

Speakers

The Bubbler

Madison Public Library

Thursday August 8, 2019 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Varsity Hall III

Opportunity

12:30pm

Tour "What the Moon Saw"

UW researchers are conducting a test run of newly developed motion capture technology to see how it works in a theatrical setting with a live audience. This is a bit like a staged reading, but for technologies rather than scripts. The video game displayed here is part of a new play, What the Moon Saw, that will debut during the August Saturday Science.

In this tour, you will get a chance to try this game yourself. The object is to herd the chickens back into their coop. To do so, wave your hands, your feet, or any other parts of your body to coax these birds back into their home. Then come back next month to see the whole play.

Please meet in Fifth Quarter Studio for this tour that will leave promptly at 12:30. You can stay as long or as short as you'd like.

During the next Saturday Science (August 10th at 10:15 and 11:15) young audience members will have the opportunity to participate in What the Moon Saw and provide feedback. The feedback the young people and their grown-ups provide will be instrumental in developing the next phase of the project.

Speakers

What The Moon Saw

Moon game description docx

Thursday August 8, 2019 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Discovery Building

Tour

12:30pm

Tour UW Makerspace

Grab your lunch early and join us for a tour of the UW Makerspace, just steps away from Union South.

As space is limited in the Makerspace, please sign up for a slot for a tour of the UW Makerspace beforehand: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f44afa62da4fc1-uwmakerspace

All tours will leave from the Play Make Learn Registration table five minute before your designated tour time.

The Makerspace is the student-run, rapid prototyping facility that is part of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab. This was all made possible through a multi-million dollar commitment from The Grainger Foundation. Our facilities include 12,000 ft^2 of shop and flex space with a wide range of rapid prototyping equipment. We strive to empower students and create a community immersed in emerging technologies and focused on creating innovative products.
We are part of the College of Engineering ecosystem of fabrication facilities, which includes the Makerspace (rapid prototyping), TEAM-Lab (precision machining, fee for service job-shop) and Kohler Visualization Studio (virtual reality, 3D scanning and data visualization). These facilities together are over 25,000 ft^2, run by 10 professional full-time staff members and ~50 student workers and contain millions of dollars of high-tech equipment. Students can build anything here: from micro to macro and from virtual to the physical.

Thursday August 8, 2019 12:30pm - 1:15pm
TBA

Tour

12:30pm

Speak with an IMLS Supervisory Grant Specialist

Drop by the table just outside of Varsity Hall to ask questions or pitch an idea to an Institute of Museum and Library Services Supervisory Grants Specialist.

Speakers

Helen Wecshler

Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Thursday August 8, 2019 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Varsity Lounge

Opportunity

1:30pm

Developing meaningful feedback for medical simulation assessment

There is a vast amount of data that can be extracted from a simulation/game setting, but a thoughtful process is needed to identify the elements that will provide the most benefit to the user to increase their mastery of the material. This will be discussed in the context of constructing a medical simulation for breast imaging. The principles can be adapted to multiple platforms within and outside of medicine.

Speakers

Lonie Salkowski

UW-Madison SMPH

Medical education, simulation, assessment, user feedback

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:30pm - 1:55pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

1:30pm

Esports & the Scholar Gamer

Esports is exploding across the world, and schools need to fully embrace esports to realize the benefits beyond the games. By understanding the concept of the "Scholar Gamer," esports can revolutionize schools in five unique ways. The games are simply the medium to a much greater educational experience for your students. In this session, learn more about the "Scholar Gamer" and the five unique ways esports can revolutionize your school's approach to engaging your students in their learning.

Speakers

James O'Hagan

Founder, The Academy of Esports

An educator for 20 years, James has long believed that video games can promote a positive culture for students that engages creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills. He has served as an elementary, middle and high school teacher and administrator, and... Read More →

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:30pm - 1:55pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

1:30pm

Designing for Equity

Participants will use design thinking activities to create prototype policies and practices. The work will center on disrupting marginalizing structures in schools using generative processes.

Speakers

Gerald Dryer

Director of Research, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Gerald Dryer Is the Research Director for the Personalization in Practice research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the relation between social justice and personalized learning in schools. His 24 year career as an educator includes classroom practice... Read More →

Dx4EqPML19 pdf

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

1:30pm

Engaging students with educational games

In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to play our free educational games designed to give students from all backgrounds access to engaging, interactive STEM-focused activities. Developed in a collaboration between research scientists, educational game designers, and teachers, the games we present in this session are both scientifically and pedagogically rigorous. Session participants will play three free games: 1) AtomTouch lets students explore atom behavior and states of matter in an interactive, 3D, touch screen environment. 2) Crystal Cave encourages students to explore how molecules form crystals in patterns through a series of increasingly complex puzzles. 3) Stranded at the Forever Mine introduces students to scientific and mathematical modeling in an edge of their seat, live or die adventure on a distant planet. We will discuss the ability of these games to meet crucial science standards and how they can be used effectively in the classroom.

Speakers

Matthew Stilwell

Assistant Education Director at the UW MRSEC, UW MRSEC

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

1:30pm

Student Leadership on the Playground

Participants will engage in a series of games and activities that highlight the power of leveraging student leadership on the playground. Topics include:
- The Benefits and Barriers of Student Leadership
- Recruitment and Managing a Student Leadership Squad
- Techniques to Ensure Ongoing Skill Development and Positive Role Modeling

Participants will end the session with an understanding of the benefits of student leadership and a vision for how to start a leadership program at their site.

Speakers

PJ Dever

Playworks

Atoi Sinclair

Playworks

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm
Landmark 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

1:55pm

Conferring in the Classroom

Conferring is a practice through which a teacher can learn about the student’s thinking on a topic, connect how prior knowledge could be applied in new ways, or challenge the student to engage in a meta-analysis of their own learning performance. (National Research Council, 2000, p 61-63; Calkins et al., 2005). Conferring serves a dual purpose of instructing and assessing students. The lines between assessment and instruction can appear blurred, as the two are closely linked in practice. Conferring is the practice of teachers talking to students about their learning. Halverson et al. (2015) explain that conferring sessions, “serve as opportunities for students to have more independent assistance with their work and get help from teachers at the students’ level. These individual conferences also guide the students and teachers in deciding the pace and path of students’ learning by working on their individual learning plan” (p. 14). The following sections describe conferring through the framework of D. R. Sadler’s (1989) three components that make formative assessment effective for learning: a clear view of goals, information about the state of the learner, and action to close the learning gap (Sadler, 1989; National Research Council, 2001, p. 229).

Speakers

Sarah Hackett

UW Madison

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:55pm - 2:20pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

1:55pm

Learning Games in 2030

Drawing on 10+ years of experience, Dan White forecasts the future of game-based learning.

Speakers

Dan White

CEO, Filament Games

Thursday August 8, 2019 1:55pm - 2:20pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

2:30pm

Digital Tools at the Intersection of History and Civics

Carrie (content), Colin (design), and David (classroom teacher) chat about the challenges in making and using digital tools to teach history. They will address the kinds of questions that may well keep you up at night: What happens when the Constitution isn't ratified? Aren't primary sources hard to read (and super boring)? Who wins when game mechanics conflict with historical narratives? How can digital elements bring the past greater relevancy? Where is the teacher's role?

This session features a behind the scenes look at two free digital resources for teaching civics and American History in classrooms. DBQuest is a digital tool for analyzing primary sources. The modules use carefully curated document sets to model historical thinking and promote student agency as students answer the big questions like “Why did the Nashville sit-ins succeed?” Race to Ratify, iCivics newest video game covers the debate over ratification by placing students in the role of a pamphleteer seeing to influence public opinion in advance of the state convention votes.

Speakers

Carrie Ray-Hill

Director of Digital Learning, iCivics, Inc.

Colin Skinner

Filament Games

David Olson

Teacher, James Madison Memorial High School, Madison Metropolitan School District

Thursday August 8, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Landmark 3rd Floor

Presentation

2:30pm

Research Careers Outside the Academy

Learning researchers are not solely found at universities. Learn about learning research and evaluation work being done outside of the academy. Gain an understanding of what the workday is like and the career path of leading researchers working outside of the academy.

Speakers

Lauren Penney

Program Manager, Making Spaces, Maker Ed

Alice Anderson

Manager of Audience Research and Impact, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Alice Anderson is the Manager of Audience Research and Impact at the Minneapolis Institute of Art where she studies how people learn through informal learning experiences. Stemming from her background in art museum education, she is particularly interested in how experiences with... Read More →

Lisa Brahms

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Evelyn Ronning

Science Museum of Minneapolis

Thursday August 8, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Presentation

2:30pm

Assessments in Library Makerspaces: The audience is everyone!

There are many reasons to use assessments in Library Makerspaces. Makers (i.e., library patrons) need feedback. Librarians need to guide maker learning and improve their own practice. Library stakeholders, such as boards of directors and the general public, all want to know if a makerspace is accomplishing its goals. While there is exciting research that is developing novel assessments for making, it will not have a significant impact unless it is paired with the different assessment needs of makers, librarians, and stakeholders.
This workshop will review who are the audiences for assessments of making, and why they might be supportive of assessment but have significantly different assessment needs. Data collection tools for determining assessment needs will be presented and tested by attendees. There will also be a review of what types of assessments could then meet identified needs and attendees will leave with instructions and tools for applying this in their respective makerspaces.

Speakers

Peter Wardrip

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Rebecca Millerjohn

Teaching and Learning Librarian, Madison Public Library

Rebecca Millerjohn is the youth services librarian with the Bubbler at Madison Public Library. Rebecca is a previous six year classroom working in Houston, Texas and at Gary Comer College Prep on Chicago’s South Side. A graduate of UW’s School of Library and Information Studies... Read More →

Sam Abramovich

University at Buffalo

Jordan Smith

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Thursday August 8, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

2:30pm

RoboCo: A Learning Game Case Study

In this session, Filament Games will recount the rollicking and in-progress odyssey of developing RoboCo, a VR/PC sandbox game about building robots. Follow along from the initial research phase, through user testing, pivots based on commercialization, new emergent hardware, and discussions with publishers. We'll also show off the game!

Speakers

Dan Norton

Filament

Thursday August 8, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

2:30pm

Using Digital Journalism to Promote Youth Voices

In this workshop, members of Wisconsin Public Television Education, a mentor for PBS Newshour Student Reporting Labs, and an SRL educator will lead participants in a workshop designed to introduce core concepts of digital journalism, to practice interviewing skills on one another, and to practice setting up video cameras for interviews.

Speakers

Ryan Hendrick

WPT Education

Megan Monday

Executive Producer, Wisconsin Public Television Education

Jessie Nixon

Doctoral Student, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Kristin Leglar (WI Media Lab)

Senior Education Specialist, Wisconsin Public Television Eduction

Kristin Leglar is Senior Educational Specialist at Wisconsin Public Television. She is responsible for outreach and teacher professional learning activities associated with Wisconsin Public Television’s educational content and services. Kristin received her Bachelor of Science degree... Read More →

Alyssa Tsagong

Director of Education, Wisconsin Public Television

Julie Tiedens

Thursday August 8, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

3:40pm

Collaborative Gamified AR Language Learning

Inspired by Holden and Sykes (2011) place-based Spanish augmented reality (AR) game Mentira, I developed two place-based AR gamified systems for French second language (FL2) learning. Explorez and VdeUVic are collaborative virtual narrative treasure hunts. At different locations on campus, players interact with characters that give them quests including clues or options to further the storyline. These interactions take place in the form of written text or audio and video recordings, encouraging students to develop language skills both written and oral. Students choose their own learning path and advance at their own pace. This design-based research draws on sociocultural theory and the social nature of language learning, emphasizing learner interactions as a principal learning force (see Vygotsky, 1986). Central is the notion of mediation, a process involving social interaction and the use of tools to facilitate higher mental activities and skills (Lantolf & Thorne, 2000). This research entails a mixed-method case study analysis of 3 cohorts of 100-level FL2 university students play-testing the two ARIS AR mobile systems.
My analysis explores potential benefits and limitations of the learning-tools, focusing on CSCL, specifically, seeking answers to the following questions: What are the students’ perceptions of their learning experience? Which elements do they identify as useful for language acquisition? How do they collaborate in order to complete the tasks? In what ways do the students collaborate to develop a meaning through the learning experience?

Holden, C. & Sykes, J. (2011). Leveraging mobile games for place-based language learning. International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL), 1(2), 1-18.
Lantolf, J. P. & Thorne, S. L. (2000). Sociocultural theory and second language learning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vygotsky, L. S. (1986). Thought and language-Revised edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Speakers

Bernadette Perry

INTD PhD student , Department of Computer Science & Department of French, University of Victoria, BC Canada

My research focuses on the gamification of second-language acquisition (specifically FL2) through quest-based learning and augmented reality.

Thursday August 8, 2019 3:40pm - 4:05pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Creative Pathways for Inclusive K12 Computational Thinking

As we work to expand student access to innovative and diverse computer science learning opportunities in the secondary grades, disproportionality and equity of access have become serious concerns. Learn about our collaborative, research-driven approach to development and implementation of a K-12 computational thinking pathway with an explicit goal of addressing equity in computer science education.

Speakers

Adam Kurth

Iowa City Public Schools

Thursday August 8, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Landmark 3rd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Making Spaces in Madison Metropolitan School District

Making Spaces is a partnership between Madison Public Library & MMSD to put maker activities, programs, and spaces into Madison Public Schools. YS librarian Rebecca Millerjohn will act as a moderator for 3-4 Making Spaces teachers to share their successes and struggles from the last year and invite them to share a favorite practice, tool, or project from their classrooms with the group - as well as next steps looking forwards to continuing the project into the next year.

The goal of this presentation is to highlight the best practices for school maker space implementation and the partnership opportunities for public libraries to serve as mentors.

Speakers

Rebecca Millerjohn

Teaching and Learning Librarian, Madison Public Library

Sara Milewski

Glendale Elementary School, MMSD

Sara Milewski has been a bilingual teacher at Glendale Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin for over 15 years. She has been committed to experiential and project-based learning for her diverse students throughout her career. She currently teaches over 400 kindergarten through 4th... Read More →

Mindy Grant

LMTS, O'Keeffe Middle School

I entered the exciting profession of education in 2006 as a high school English teacher. Since then I have taught English language arts in six of the seven secondary levels and held the role of personalized learning coach, learning coordinator, and reading interventionist. Literacy... Read More →

Thursday August 8, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Connect, Explore, Engage with Your Community Using Sifter

Participants will PLAY with Siftr, a free social media app created by UW FIELD Day Lab, to connect with, or develop a sense of, place through an authentic inquiry experience. They will MAKE their own Siftr projects to explore the world outside of the classroom by geo-tagging photos and recording field observations using a mobile device. Attendees will LEARN how teachers, using Siftr, can engage students in meaningful stewardship projects within the local natural and cultural communities.

Exemplar Siftr projects will be shared as inspiration for classroom-based applications of the app. Created by K-12 educators, these Siftrs support learning and increase student engagement across multiple content areas including English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Math, and Physical Education. Children’s online safety considerations as well as alternate methods of using Siftr when mobile devices are not available will be shared.

A portion of this workshop will be spent outdoors.

Speakers

Sandra Benton

Co-Founder & Leadership Team, Wisconsin Green Schools Network

Sandy Benton is passionate about teaching and learning. Her experiences and research as both a literacy coach and a classroom teacher indicate that deep, lasting learning occurs when instruction is learner-centered, interdisciplinary, hands-on, and grounded in real world experiences... Read More →

Joe Riederer

Middle school science teacher, Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School

I am a parent, teacher, writer, and photographer. I live on a dirt road, and raise rhubarb and garlic.

Get a head start Create a Siftr account pdf

Link to Siftr Workshop Launch Pad pdf

Thursday August 8, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

4:05pm

Singular Vision: The Independent Game Developer as Auteur

The auteur theory in filmmaking has existed for decades and describes the director of a film as an author who imprints a strong, uniquely identifiable mark on their work through a variety of means, including story structure, cinematography, music, and character archetypes. The auteur's creative vision is singular and stems from their own mind, as opposed to the homogenized, collective decisions of a group of executives, producers, marketeers, or middle managers. The auteur's creative "stamp" is consistent, and can be seen and felt across their entire body of work, over time.

Does this notion of auteurism exist in the world of game development? If so, how, and why? As a developer of 17 years who has worked on a wide variety of games in many creative and leadership capacities, I will explore the notion of auteurism and the ways in which it applies to the world of independent game development.

Some of the questions I plan to address in my presentation include: Can auteurs exist in what is a typically collaborative production space? If so, who, and what is their role within their studio? What types of games do independent developers make, and why? What qualities make their games feel unique and identifiable? Do auteurist games succeed both critically and commercially? Why have auteurs in games not risen to prominence in similar ways as their filmmaking counterparts (Kubrick, Hitchcock, The Coens, Tarantino, etc)?

I hope to educate and inspire audience members who are engaged in scholarly critical game studies work, as well as attendees who are actively creating their own video games.

Speakers

Jeff Spoonhower

University of Notre Dame

Thursday August 8, 2019 4:05pm - 4:30pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

4:30pm

Poster Reception

Join us for our poster reception in the Varsity Hall. The reception will include light appetizers and a cash bar.
"Fractions War: An iOS Game to Train and Measure Fractions Knowledge" John Binzak
"Participatory School Design: Milestone Democratic School" Sean Anderson
"Maker Learning Matrix" Dennis Rockhill
"Cooperative Games in High School" Aaron Kaio
"T2S: Tabletops to Screens: Developing board games and learning materials to support connected learning around computational thinking and coding" Victor Lee
"Kids Code Madison" Alyssa Kenney
"Verizon and PLTW Educator Portal" Brianna Patrick
"Incorporating Risk into Game Scoring: What? Why? How?" Sherry Robinson
"Turning Class into an Escape Room" Seann Dikkers
"Making and Gaming in the Liberal Arts" Angela Vanden Elzen
"Towards a Process Model of Artistic Practice Within Noise" Peter J. Woods
"A Maker Course for Graduate Students: Bridging Experiences between the UT Campus Makerspace and K-12 Makerspaces in Austin, Texas" Songhee Han
"Card-sent Education: Using games to teach consent" Caleb Probst
"Mission Impossible" Dasom Hwang
“The role of asynchronous digital feedback on youth maker projects” Amy Smith & Erica Halverson
"Remixing Wakanda: Envisioning Critical Afrofuturist Design" Mike Dando
"Building Interest-Based Personalized Learning into Public Schools" Rich Halverson & Julie Kallio
"I learned how energy can make fruit play a song": Learners describe short term making experiences" Andy Stoiber
"Uncovering Themes in Personalized Learning: Using Natural Language Processing to Analyze School Interviews" David McHugh and Sarah Shaw
“Rockwood Library Makerspace: Connected Learning in Action” Desiree Wolcott-Cushman
"STEAM Building at Your Library!" Lisa Leuck
"Designing Public Interactive Displays in Children’s Museums" Eda Zhang
"Creatives in our Community" Shawana Brooks
"Virtual Reality: A dynamic tool for social emotional learning and engineering design" Michelle Minter
"Making and 3D printing in Augsburg's Food Lab" Benjamin L. Stottrup, Noah Aleshire

Speakers

Noah Aleshire

Benjamin Stottrup

Sherry Robinson

Associate Professor of Business, Penn State University - Hazleton

My mission is to create an engaging experience for students. Games and mobile devices are two tools that I find useful.

Erica Halverson

Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison

Erica Halverson is a Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at UW-Madison who studies how people learn in and through the arts. She’s written a lot about it, including co-editing the Makeology books as well as an essay with Kim Sheridan that has helped to define how we study making... Read More →

David McHugh

Education Consultant, DPI

I am lucky to serve as DPI's first Games & Learning Liaison where I foster connections to help discover and scale games & learning opportunities for Wisconsin teachers and students. I also work on strategic planning and professional learning for the agency. Outside of DPI, I study... Read More →

Angela Vanden Elzen

Reference & Learning Technologies Librarian and Assistant Professor, Lawrence University Library

Angela Vanden Elzen is the Reference & Learning Technologies Librarian at Lawrence University’s Seeley G. Mudd Library. In this role, she provides reference services, manages the campus makerspace, oversees the library website, co-leads social media initiatives, and gets to teach... Read More →

Julie Kallio

UW Madison

Rich Halverson

John Binzak

PHD Graduate Student (ABD), Educational Neuroscience Lab

I'm an educational neuroscientist who designs math and science video games. I incorporate games into my research to study how informal learning contexts, academic attitudes, and rich visuals impact learning. I design games with the goal of turning abstract STEM concepts into experiences... Read More →

Victor Lee

Associate Professor, Utah State University

Dennis Rockhill

Makerspace Director, The Einstein Project

Peter J. Woods

Doctoral Candidate, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Sean Dikkers

Associate Professor, Bethel University

Sarah Shaw

UW Madison

Aaron Kaio

Shabazz High School

Amy Smith

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Caleb Probst

Sean M.Z. Anderson

Milestone Democratic School

Alyssa Kenney

DANEnet

Brianna Patrick

Project Lead The Way

Songhee Han

UT Austin

Dasom Hwang

Graduate student, UW Madison

Mike Dando

St. Cloud State University

Andy Stoiber

UW Madison

Desiree Wolcott-Cushman

Makerspace Program Specialist, Multnomah County Library Makerspace

Lisa Leuck

Library Director, Elgin Public Library in Elgin, Iowa

Eda Zhang

PhD student, University of Wisconsin Madison

Full time researcher -interested in game-based learning, museum education, makerspace...Part-time photographer - https://www.instagram.com/edalikesmangooo/?hl=en

Shawana Brooks

Jacksonville Public Library

Shawana Brooks is a creative’s creative. She is poet, storyteller, curator and artists’ advocate. Mrs. Brooks works for the Main Public Library as the Curator, Arts and Culture Developer for their Public Space galleries.Her story is one of reinvention, renewal, and optimism in... Read More →

Michelle Minter

Rome Corners Intermediate School, Oregon School District

Thursday August 8, 2019 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Varsity Hall I&II

Poster Reception

8:00am

Registration

Friday August 9, 2019 8:00am - 9:00am
Varsity Lounge

Registration

9:00am

Keynote- How the Tools We Use Shape Participation and Learning

An artist by training, Dr. Peppler is an Associate Professor of Informatics and Education at UC Irvine and engages in research that focuses on the intersection of arts, computational technologies and interest-driven learning. In addition to serving as the Director of the Creativity Labs, Dr. Peppler is the Chief Learning Officer at Collective Shift/LRNG, the former lead of the MacArthur Foundation’s Make-to-Learn initiative, and a member of the 2016 and 2017 National Educational Technology Plan Committee, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Peppler was on the original NSF-sponsored Scratch team during the initial design and early study of the Scratch platform. Since this time, she has specialized in studying e-textile design with the LilyPad Arduino.

Dr. Peppler is the recipient of several recent awards, including Mira Tech Educator of the Year and an NSF Early CAREER recipient, as well as grants from the Spencer Foundation, Moore Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation, among others. Through this support, she has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including the authoring or editing of more than 11 book publications. The most recent volumes include the Makeology series as well as the The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning. Her current scholarly interests include theorizing how changing the tools and materials in today's learning environments can help broaden participation in STEM, particularly among women and other minoritized populations, as well as improve overall learning outcomes.

Speakers

Kylie Peppler

UC Irvine

Friday August 9, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am
Varsity Hall I&II

Keynote Presentation

9:00am

Arcade

Speakers

Filament Games

Field Day

Gear Learning

The Bubbler

Madison Public Library

Friday August 9, 2019 9:00am - 4:00pm
Varsity Hall III

Arcade

10:00am

Showcasing UW-Madison Secondary Education Posters

Posters:
"The Effect of Competition on Student Experiences with Digitally Interactive Games" by Greta Goetz
"The Case for Video Game Studies" by Kenneth Hawes
"Educational Technology, Classroom Tech Integration" Brendan Hickey

Additional Posters TBA

Speakers

Brendan Hickey

UW Madison

Greta Goetz

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kenneth Hawes

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday August 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Poster Reception

10:00am

Conversation about Big Data, Analytics, Gaming and Learning

Rich Halverson will host Columbia Teachers College Professor Alex Bowers for a conversion on data analytics, gaming and learning. Alex is one of the pioneers of education data science, and his research in game-based learning, predictive modeling, and data-based decision making has created new fields of inquiry around the world. Rich and Alex will discuss why using computers for fun is good for student learning, the kinds of teachers who use technology, how computers can (and cannot) predict the future, and why Fortnite and Twitch are the learning environments of the future right now.

Speakers

Rich Halverson

Alex Bowers

Teachers College

Friday August 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Presentation

10:00am

Make It! Building K-12 Digital Resources around Asian Art

Learn about the MIA's process for developing a new teacher resource website about the Arts of Asia, how those digital resources and tools support new instructional practices with school teachers and the complexities and opportunities of school teachers for partnering with an art museum.

Speakers

Alice Anderson

Manager of Audience Research and Impact, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Gretchen Halverson

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Alyssa Machida

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Friday August 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

10:00am

Engaging students with educational games

Speakers

Matthew Stilwell

Assistant Education Director at the UW MRSEC, UW MRSEC

Friday August 9, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am
Landmark 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

10:00am

Information Technology Academy: Business Pitch Session

After a week long intensive, ITA students will pitch their technology-centered business ideas to local entrepreneur judges. Come listen to the fantastically innovative ideas from Wisconsin students from around the state. The top three winners will pitch their ideas at lunch and the top winner will receive a cash prize.

In alignment with the UW-Madison’s Diversity Framework, Information Technology Academy (ITA) is a pre-college initiative with the goal of increasing enrollment rates of diverse students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ITA programs serve students in the communities of Madison, Lac du Flambeau and Oneida.

Through ITA, high school students build knowledge and skills with hands-on training, academic support, mentoring, leadership development, community service and internship opportunities. At the same time, the students’ communities benefit from greater access to technology and from the skills and experience gained by these future leaders.

Speakers

Information Technology Academy

Friday August 9, 2019 10:00am - 12:00pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

11:00am

Participatory Games Development in political education

With EZRA, a professional team of game designers, programmers and media educators designed a game, in a full participatory process, that gives3rd-6th graders the opportunity to deal with possibilities of political participation in the modern democratic society. The main focus in the production process was, and is, to design a highly believable game, to reach kids from several minority groups that have low identification with the democratic system and governmental institutions.

Speakers

Max Neu

Friday August 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:25am
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

11:00am

Learning with Visual Representations in an Educational Video Game

Digital learning games can engage students in authentic STEM practices, including the use of visual representations. Prior research shows that visual representations can help students learn, as long as they have prerequisite representational competencies to understand how they show information and how to use them for problem solving. However, prior research has not addressed these questions within games.
This presentation focuses on two initial studies on the intersection of games-based learning and visual representations. The first study was a case study of a high-performing student playing an astronomy game used as an assignment in an introductory astronomy course. We investigated whether he had the representational competencies necessary to make sense of how astronomers use visuals to solve disciplinary problems. Even though the student showed high performance in the course, he had difficulties making sense of the visual representations in the game. Further, he did not understand that the visuals in the game were realistic astronomy tools.
The second study was an experiment with 45 students playing the same game as part of a cross-disciplinary capstone assignment in a special topics course in chemistry. The study included two conditions – the game with prompts to support representational competencies and the game with no prompts. Surprisingly, results showed no differences across conditions on measures of representational competencies. Further, results showed no differences in learning outcomes for low performing students but showed that the prompts depressed learning for high performing students. The presentation addresses these results and plans for future studies to gain further insights into these phenomena.

Speakers

Tiffany Herder

Graduate Researcher, Gear Learning / UW Madison

Friday August 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Landmark 3rd Floor

Presentation

11:00am

GameStormEDU: Strategies for Teachers and Students to Design Their Own EduGames!

Gaming is in the midst of a cultural renaissance - whether it is esports, board games, or even game-based learning! What has not always been accessible to educators is a design process to design gameful learning experiences in the classroom, or the tools to help students design their own games. Enter GameStormEDU, a process focused on helping anyone design an educational game using physical and digital strategies!

In this session, we will explore the six steps to designing games, brainstorm ideas to implement in your classroom or role, and help you walk out of the room with a prototype to begin refining for use with your students/staff immediately!

Speakers

Jon Spike

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Friday August 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

11:00am

Social Play for Learning - Experience and Science

Why are we teaching children languages with worksheets and flashcards? Social Play is the foundation and natural way in which children learn language best. Through intentional play together children are able to be taught a variety of objectives embedded in music, art, games, etc. Using games and playing creates a compelling need to know, ask, examine, assimilate and master certain oral, written and reading skills and contents. This workshop will provide examples on how learning a language such as Spanish can be taught through playing together. Tools will be shared to aid programs and teachers in developing their own curriculums based on games. Let’s work to create joyful learning experiences for children!

Speakers

Richard James

Sr. Architect, Nationwide

zerzer

Pepe Barros

Friday August 9, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

11:25am

Examining How Games Are Designed and Employed for Learning in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore

In Asia, Chinese-populated countries such as Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Singapore and China are among the most devoted promoters of GBL. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, board games are employed broadly by teachers in classrooms while researchers develop games, tutorials, workshops, and lesson plans to meet the increasing needs from schools and teachers.Although game has become widely popular in formal and informal learning settings, there is a lack of literature regarding how games are being designed and employed for education in these countries, especially for the promotion of 21st century learning skills such as collaboration and problem-solving, given these countries are reforming their educational systems for 21st century knowledge economy.

This research investigates how games are designed and employed for learning in the four Asian countries governed by Chinese—China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. In particular, we investigate the concept of GBL conceptualized, what games are designed for, and the constructs that inform game design by researchers.

We analyze 92 GBL papers published by the Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE) in the past five years with an analytic framework proposed by Jan and Gaydos. The findings suggest that (1) most GBL studies aim at fostering motivation and subjects-based content mastery via drill-and-practice, (2) GBL is mostly driven by technologies rather than pedagogies.

Speakers

Tieh-huai Chang

National Central University, Taiwan

Feiching Chen

Mingfong Jan

Friday August 9, 2019 11:25am - 11:50am
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

12:00pm

Lunch

Friday August 9, 2019 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Varsity Hall I&II

Meal

12:10pm

Information Technology Academy: Top Pitches from Business Pitch Competition

During the morning Play Make Learn session, ITA students pitched their technology-centered business ideas to local entrepreneur judges. During lunch, we have the opportunity to hear the top three pitches from fantastically innovative Wisconsin students from around the state. The top three winners will pitch their ideas at lunch and the top winner will receive a cash prize. So grab your lunch quickly and get ready!

In alignment with the UW-Madison’s Diversity Framework, Information Technology Academy (ITA) is a pre-college initiative with the goal of increasing enrollment rates of diverse students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ITA programs serve students in the communities of Madison, Lac du Flambeau and Oneida.

Through ITA, high school students build knowledge and skills with hands-on training, academic support, mentoring, leadership development, community service and internship opportunities. At the same time, the students’ communities benefit from greater access to technology and from the skills and experience gained by these future leaders.

Speakers

Information Technology Academy

Friday August 9, 2019 12:10pm - 1:00pm
Varsity Hall I&II

Presentation

1:30pm

Identifying a Problem of Practice

I'll begin with a typology of different problems and explore processes and tools for narrowing the problem space to identify a common problem of practice that will structure co-design work. Attendees will learn what makes a problem actionable, tools for problem identification and analysis, and the negotiation required between participants.

Speakers

Julie Kallio

UW Madison

Friday August 9, 2019 1:30pm - 1:55pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Presentation

1:30pm

Not a Fad: Why makerspaces make good learning environments

Drawing on scholarly research and data collected as part of The Wisconsin Teacher Studio, this presentation will make a case for investing in making as a way to meet organizational and scholarly learning goals in your institution.
While makerspaces are certainly proliferating in learning environments (both formal and informal), it is clear that they require the investment in terms of time, materials, labor, and professional learning. So, are they worth it?
The answer is yes, they are. In fact, makerspaces are environments where one can meet a variety of learning and organizational goals including, but not limited to: design-based/project-based learning opportunities for students which afford differentiation and personalization, teaching and learning for social justice, multi-modal literacy, to name a few.
To make this case, this presentation will share data collected from educators in diverse environments (informal and formal) about the benefits of learning through making, for their students, and also for themselves.

Speakers

Emily Schindler

Doctoral Candidate, University of Wisconsin

Mike Cook

Brinn Labs

Bill Pariso

Brinn Labs

Friday August 9, 2019 1:30pm - 1:55pm
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Presentation

1:30pm

Mapping Personalized Learning

This workshop will introduce participants to a survey designed to map current personalized learning practices across contexts and identify strategies for strengthening personalized practices. In this workshop style session, participants will be invited to respond to the Mapping Personalized Learning survey, use their individual survey results to reflect on their own personalized learning practices, and discuss with peers strategies for strengthening practice. Formative feedback based on the survey will be used to discuss and plan for growth and the sustainability of personalized teaching practices. Participants will also contribute to the irritative design process of the survey itself.

Speakers

Gerald Dryer

Director of Research, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Jessica Arrigoni

Wisconsin Center for Education Research

MaPL Survey Launch Pad pdf

Friday August 9, 2019 1:30pm - 1:55pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

1:30pm

Bringing Back the 3 P's: Play, Passion, Purpose

In this workshop, you will discover the importance of play and how it is linked to our passions and purpose based on Tony Wagner's research. We will dig into why we need to allow space and time for the 3 P's in our tight school daily schedules. You will play with passion and purpose and you will become an advocate for this in your educational setting!

Speakers

Beth Clarke

Dir of Digital Leadership and Learning, CESA2

Beth is currently working with CESA 2 districts to support digital leadership and learning. She supports equity for access to eliminate gaps, micro-credentials for learner-centered practices, technology and STEM applications, Future Ready leadership and scaling for change programs... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

1:30pm

Decoded

The central dogma of life states that genes, written in DNA and transcribed into RNA, code for proteins. Three nucleic acids code for a single amino acid. This three-to-one coding scheme is a fundamental biological concept. In this activity, young students become familiar with the genetic code using arts and crafts. RNA messages are written on slips of paper and nucleotides are represented as colored symbols rather than A, U, C, and G. Amino acids are represented as their single-letter codes in order to spell words as representations of proteins. Although the genetic code is simplified in this activity, the logic is biologically accurate. Three symbols code for one letter. Participants have a choice of writing RNA transcripts with four stamp markers or decoding written transcripts using custom-made alphabet stamps that have codons as labels, matched with the correct letter of the alphabet when you stamp them. In this way, students perform a fun hands-on simulation of protein synthesis.

Speakers

Julia Martien

UW Madison Bacteriology

Friday August 9, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm
Landmark 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

1:55pm

Extended gamer’s experience into real world: Elementary school students enactive display in math classrooms

Game Transfer Phenomena is a new inquiry line in game research, but it remains mostly at the conceptual level. In this study, we empirically study how primary school students transfer their gaming experience into the construction of math problems. Specifically we found some students draw from their gaming experience to construct mathematic problems. Three themes were identified in describing such transfer: (1) Constructing math problems with game mechanics, (2) using the representational system in game to construct math problems, and (3) internalizing trial-and error strategy via multiple lives.

Speakers

Tieh-huai Chang

National Central University, Taiwan

Feiching Chen

Mingfong Jan

Friday August 9, 2019 1:55pm - 2:20pm
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Presentation

1:55pm

To Type or Not To Type: Programming Interfaces for Learners

There are enough games which are designed to teach programming that we can begin to examine the range of affordances presented, and how they might affect learning outcomes for different groups of players. This talk will attempt to do just that, as we look at the way players code in games like Lightbot, CodeMonkey, CodeCombat, Codemancer, Daisy the Dinosaur, Human Resource Machine, and more. We can talk about what each of these says about the values of the organization that made it, and what each assumes about the ways players will interact with them in the wild.

Speakers

Bobby Lockhart

CodeCombat/Important Little Games

Friday August 9, 2019 1:55pm - 2:20pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Presentation

1:55pm

Google Drawings...Oh My!

This session will explore the multiple uses of Google Drawings. This G-Suite hidden gem can be used for far more than just drawing, including; graphic organizers, timelines, annotation, interactive whiteboard, comic strips and more. Come to this session to explore the many uses and take away with templates you can already start using with your students!

Speakers

Stacy Smith-Buckley

Digital Learning Coach, MMSD

I am an Digital Learning Coach for the Madison Metropolitan School District. Prior to that I was the Instructional Technology Teacher Leader for the district supporting district technologies, mainly Infinite Campus and Google Apps for Education. I previously taught Middle School Instructional... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2019 1:55pm - 2:20pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

2:30pm

3-2-1 ROCKiT! Innovation in the Madison Metropolitan School District

This past fall, we launched ROCKiT, MMSD's new innovation team. Our team intentionally cultivates, develops, and grows MMSD's capacity to innovate around complex, equity-based problems in order to find new opportunities so their students, staff and community thrive. From a listening tour designed to map the innovation landscape in MMSD to running design challenges and sprints with MMSD and community team members, we have put this goal into action. Come learn with us about the work thus far and practice some of our design tools and processes that drive innovative thinking and opportunity solving within MMSD. Be ready for a session that's fast paced, action oriented, and a lot of fun!

Speakers

Leigh Vierstra

MMSD

Lauren Morris

MMSD

Rich Halverson

Beth Vaade

Innovation Project Manager, MMSD

Friday August 9, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Presentation

2:30pm

Field Day Fellowships: Educational game co-design as professional development

In this session we will introduce the Field Day Fellowship program, an innovative educator professional development approach that was used to create a host of award-winning educational games. The new fellowships for the 2019-2020 school-year will be described and participants will learn how to apply.

Speakers

Jim Mathews

Field Day Lab

David Gagnon

Field Day Lab Director, Field Day Lab

Friday August 9, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

2:30pm

UW Community Arts Collab

The mission of the newly established UW-Madison Community Arts Collaboratory is two-fold: to provide art-making opportunities through high-quality programming for youth to cultivate wellness and advocate for social change, and to conduct cutting-edge research at the intersections of the arts and learning. This session provides a sneak peak of the organization, its future direction, and a sampling of current investigations in quick, rapid-fire succession.

Speakers

Erica Halverson

Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison

Yorel Lashley

UW Madison

Stephanie Richards

UW Madison

Friday August 9, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Landmark 3rd Floor

Presentation

2:30pm

Fair Play

Participants will have the opportunity to engage with the pilot version of the game, Fair Play – K12. Fair Play – K12 provides players with an experiential understanding of implicit biases experienced by minority students in K-12 settings. The game was developed as a professional development tool for K-12 educators that encourages empathy and perspective-taking as methods of reducing implicit bias among players. Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback on Fair Play – K12 during this 50-minute demo.

Speakers

Christine M. Pribbenow

Friday August 9, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

2:30pm

Lions and Tigers and Bots...O My

Lions and Tigers and Bots is a workshop model demonstrating and actively engaging participants in practical solutions for technology integration in the classroom. We will take participants through exemplar lessons to demonstrate how literacy, social studies, and art can have technology integrated on a daily basis. Participants will specifically learn about and explore how to integrate hardware such as Ozobots,Robot Mice, Botley, and Mini Spheros smoothly into their curriculum. One main benefit to these devices is that they do not require additional technologies to program and have a low cost to high engagement ratio.

Speakers

Louis Kotvis

Skokie School District 69

Alyssa Hofeld

Special Educator, Edison Elementary

Friday August 9, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Workshop/ Demo

3:40pm

Cultivating Emergent Behaviors: a Tiltbrush VR lecture on education, creativity, and technology

Given in Google’s Tiltbrush, this talk will outline the rationale that guides The Immersive Media Lab at UW-Milwaukee. Out front, some basic thoughts on technology and creativity will be shared/explored. Chris Willey, the director of the lab, will show how he builds “structure” around the intrinsic motivations with the researchers in the space, helping to channel their energy into flow states/deliberate practice. We will see dynamic and convergent zones of proximal development, and finally the main outcome of this antidisciplinary environment: emergent creativity.

Speakers

Chris Willey

Director | Immersive Media Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Chris Willey is the Director of the Immersive Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The lab is an antidisciplinary collaborative that focuses on emerging technologies. Our research aligns the spheres of science, culture, and technology through the lens of creativity... Read More →

Friday August 9, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Industry 3rd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Making Spaces: Tools and Practices to support Maker Educator Development

Making Spaces is a nationwide program that uses an innovative model to assist schools in sustainably integrating making and tinkering into the classroom. This session will share the challenges and opportunities of informal learning organizations working directly with schools as well as using a network model for supporting making and tinkering in schools.

Speakers

Mindy Porter

Director of Education, Scott Family Amazeum

Mindy Porter joined the core leadership team of the Amazeum in 2013 prior to the museum opening to the public in 2015. Utilizing her 14 years of science museum experience, she created the vision for the education department including educational approach, staffing structure, operational... Read More →

Lisa Brahms

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Lauren Penney

Program Manager, Making Spaces, Maker Ed

Friday August 9, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Agriculture 3rd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Using Game Design to Teach Students Pharmacy Practice Skills

During this session, attendees will learn about an experimental game jam in an Integrated Pharmacotherapy Skills lab designed to provide students a deeper understanding of how pharmacists educate patients about anticoagulants and to reinforce student knowledge of anticoagulant medications. Attendees will leave the session with ideas on how to incorporate a game jam session into their classroom.

Speakers

Mike Beall

Gear Learning Director, Gear Learning

I am the Director of Gear Learning, a video game development studio at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. My career in designing educational games began by working side by side with Kurt Squire and Rich Halverson at the University of Wisconsin. Over the last decade, I have... Read More →

Andrea Porter

Friday August 9, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Fifth Quarter Studio 2nd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Well Played: Leveraging Commercial Games to Teach Skills and Concepts in K-12 and Higher Ed

Commercial games offer an incredibly large amount of skills transferrable to the real world, whether it is learning to work and communicate as a group, understanding another person's perspective and identity, or even how to close read a narrative to discover symbols, theme, characterization, and more. In this session, we will explore commercial games such as Gone Home, What Remains of Edith Finch, Way, Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes, Papers, Please, This War of Mine, and more to discuss their merit as experiential learning and value as digital texts to deconstruct. Their implementation in K-12 and Higher Education will also be shared, along with possible ideas for future commercial game implementations.

Speakers

Jon Spike

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Friday August 9, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Northwoods 3rd Floor

Presentation

3:40pm

Create-a-Play: Making Plays With Fill-in-the-Blank Scripts to Learn Interpersonal Communication

Having a tough conversation is tough, because there’s rarely time to practice. During this workshop participants will learn how to use playwrighting, role-play, and improvisation to create space for young people to practice interpersonal communication. This intervention is designed to help middle and high school students have conversations about healthy relationships, bullying, and consent.

Speakers

Caleb Probst

Friday August 9, 2019 3:40pm - 4:30pm
Landmark 3rd Floor

Workshop/ Demo