My friend and former MSU MAET co-teacher Dr. Aroutis Foster is offering a Yearlong Seminar Series: Digital Games: Teaching, Learning, & Assessment

Here’s a link to the Drexel Learning Games Network
http://mobile.goodwin.drexel.edu/dlgn/

Admission to the speaker talks: Free
Location of Presentations – Bossone Building: Mitchell Auditorium
Registration Info to be Gathered – Names and email

Chris Dede (Harvard University – opens the series)
Visiting dates November 2-3

Chris Dede Talk – November 2, 2010 @ 7 PM – 8:30 PM in the Mitchell Auditorium
Building: Bossone Research Center
Address: 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 1910
See http://goodwin.drexel.edu/news.php?article=dig_games

His seminar series talk will be centered around effective assessment approaches for learning with digital games and virtual worlds and the implication of new technologies such as games and virtual worlds for teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Punya Mishra (Michigan State University)– Visiting dates January 25-26

Punya Mishra Talk – January 25, 2011 @ 7 PM – 8:30 PM in the Mitchell Auditorium
Location Building: Bossone Research Center
Address: 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 1910

His seminar series talk will be centered around the educational technology framework, TPACK, its multidimensional use, how it works as a framework, how it may be used in assessments for games and virtual worlds for learning, and the implications of TPACK for teacher education and the use of games.

David Shaffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Visiting dates March 22-23

David Williamson Shaffer Talk – March 22, 2011 @ 7 PM – 8:30 PM in the Mitchell Auditorium

Building: Bossone Research Center

Address: 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 1910

His seminar series talk will be centered around epistemic games and its implications for learning as well as emerging work in the area around epistemic frames.

Eric Klopfer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Visiting dates May 17-18

Eric Klopfer Talk – May 17, 2011 @ 7 PM – 8:30 PM in the Mitchell Auditorium

Location

Building: Bossone Research Center

Address: 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 1910

His seminar series talk will be centered around mobile learning and games in particular Augmented Reality Gaming (ARG) and the implication for teaching, learning, and assessment especially in K-12. He will also talk about the research around ARG, levels of gameness, and ways to develop ARG technology.

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