7th Anual Games for Change Festival, May 27th – Games and Learning: G4LI Workshop

Date May 27th, 2010

Time 8:30 am to 8:00 pm

Location Warren Weaver Hall, room 109

Games for Learning: Research and Design Innovation at NYU

At the 7th Anual Games for Change Festival on May 27th, 2010.

The Games for Learning Institute (g4li.org) is please to announce our keynote speakers:

Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research, Author, You Are Not a Gadget

Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute

Michael H. Levine, Joan Ganz Cooney Center

Program:

8:30 am

Registration and Continental breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome Address: Games For Change Executive Director Alex Quinn introduces the Games for Learning Institute, Ken Perlin, New York University/Games for Learning Institute,

9:15 am
Research Innovation
Moderator: Jan Plass, NYU/G4LI

• Relationship between the motivational characteristics of games and learning outcomes. Richard Wainess, UCLA/CRESST/CATS

• Research on the Instructional Effectiveness of Computer Games? Sigmund Tobias, University at Albany, SUNY, J. Dexter Fletcher, Institute for Defense Analyses

• Action video game playing as a learning tool. Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester

Respondent: Marc Prensky, Games2Train & Kurt Squire, University of Wisconsin–Madison

- Break -

11:30 am
Microtalks: Research Innovation

• Katherine Isbister, NYU-Poly

• Katie Culp, Center for Children and Technology/Education Development Center

• Greg Chung, UCLA/CRESST/CATS

• Jan Plass, NYU/G4LI

12:30 pm
Keynote: Jaron Lanier, University of California, Berkeley

1:00pm – Lunch

1:45 pm

Keynote: Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute

2:15 pm

Design Innovation

Moderator: Ken Perlin, NYU/G4LI

• Translating Instructional Ideas into Good Game Designs. Cornelia Brunner, CCT/EDC

• Toward a Theory of Game-based Assessment. Kurt Squire, U W-M

• Sources of Evidence for Embedded Assessment in Immersive Game Worlds. Brian Nelson, ASU

Respondents: Tracy Fullerton, USC & Eric Zimmerman

Ice Cream Break – provided by our friends at  Ben and Jerry’s

4:35 pm

Microtalks: Design Innovation

• Miguel Nussbaum, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Marjee Chmiel, The JASON Project, Nina Walia, PBS
• Doug Clark, Vanderbilt University
• Tobi Saulnier, Ist Playable Productions
• Victoria Van Voorhis, Second Avenue Software
  

5:30 pm

Closing Keynote: E-Line Ventures Managing Partner and Games for Change Board Chair Alan Gershenfeld introduces Michael H. Levine, Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center

6:00 pm

GamesFest and Reception