National Education Technology Plan

• Focus on technology but need to use it for PD

Understanding by Design

• Backwards design or backwards planning
• Clear learning objectives

• How could we incorporate game design practices into education?

Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking

• Ed Tech is not the silver bullet – must come with pedagogy and PD

In-Game, In-Room, In-World

• Kids learn plenty from each other
• Kidification of education

The Perils and Promises of Praise

• Growth mindset
• Constructive praise – effort and process not ability itself (you’re so smart!)

Four-Phase Model of Interest Development

• Model
  • Triggered Situational Interest
  • Maintained Situational Interest
  • Emerging Individual Interest
  • Well Developed Individual Interest
• Teacher’s interest is probably best predictor of effective teaching
• Teacher’s role is to provide:
  • Positive feelings
  • Generate curiosity
  • Provide opportunities
  • Guide on research

The New Coviewing

• Joint Media Engagement
• Design Guide
  • Mutual engagement
  • Dialogue inquiry
  • Co-creation
  • Boundary crossing
  • Intention to develop
  • Focus on content, not control
• Challenges
  • Parents too busy
  • Parents unaware of needs
  • Don’t enjoy the same content
  • Desired interactions not always triggered
  • Little continuity into other family activities
  • Distraction are always present
• Design principles
  • Kid driven
  • Multiple plains of engagement
  • Differentiation of roles
  • Scaffolds to scaffold
  • Trans media storytelling
  • Co-creation
  • Fit
• “What goes on between people around media can be as important as what is designed into the media”

Teachable Agents and the Protégé Effect

• Care more about pleasing others than oneself, so having someone you need to help enhances learning through teaching this person

Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels

• Tangible User Interfaces

Horizon Reports

• re-teaching our teachers how and what to teach