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Jackson Morris

NYCDOE
Teacher
Brooklyn, NY
Websitehttps://spedtools.wordpress.com/
Gamifying the classroom
Educational games
Exploration games
Thursday, June 23
 

9:00am EDT

Welcome and Opening Remarks Tishman Auditorium

9:45am EDT

Opening Remarks from Erik Huey Tishman Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Failing to Change Room 104 We All Want to Be in the Room Where it Happens Tishman Auditorium Building School Community With Civic-Themed Hackathons Room 105

11:15am EDT

Show, Don't Tell: Making Personal Games Room 104 UX in Educational Games Room 105

11:30am EDT

Comedy, Games and Social Change Room 104

11:45am EDT

Gaming for Good: A Disruptive Innovation Room 104

12:00pm EDT

Edu-Larps: Live Roleplay in the Classroom Room 105

12:15pm EDT

Case Study: The Meaning of BEEP Room 105

2:00pm EDT

State of the Union Tishman Auditorium Video Games as Meditation Room 104

2:30pm EDT

Panel - Funding Games Within the Public Sector: A Conversation Between Funders and Artists Tishman Auditorium What's Next in Minecraft Education Room 105 Heal Thyself: What Makes Health Games Work? Room 104

2:45pm EDT

Panel - From Player to Developer: Girls in Gaming Starr Foundation Hall

3:00pm EDT

Pro Tips for Breaking into the Education Market Room 105

4:00pm EDT

Industry Circle Town Hall Tishman Auditorium Panel - Community of Interest: Comics for Impact Room 105 Workshop - Includification: Designing Accessible Games Starr Foundation Hall

4:30pm EDT

Panel - From Fantasy to Empathy: Changing Game Dialogue For the Real World Room 104

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - Games Reveal Decision Biases: Poker - a Lab for Studying Irrationality, w/ Annie Duke Tishman Auditorium

7:00pm EDT

The 2016 Games for Change Awards Slate
 
Friday, June 24
 

9:15am EDT

Welcome Remarks from Colleen Macklin Tishman Auditorium

9:20am EDT

Opening Remarks from Seth Andrew Tishman Auditorium

9:30am EDT

Keynote - The Future of Virtual Reality and Education with Jesse Schell Tishman Auditorium

10:45am EDT

Empathy Overload: Choice Matters Room 104 Panel - Computer Science for All: Putting Students in the Driver's Seat Tishman Auditorium Panel - Rethinking Assessment: Mastery Doesn't Require a Bubble Sheet Starr Foundation Hall Meet the Industry Circle Faculty Lounge

11:30am EDT

Workshop - Gamifying the Classroom: Where the Student Becomes the Hero, with Classcraft Starr Foundation Hall Panel - Rewiring the Brain: Anxiety Treatment Through Gameplay Room 105

1:30pm EDT

Well Played: That Dragon, Cancer Room 104 Panel - Community of Interest: Violence and Games Room 105 Speed Networking Starr Foundation Hall

2:45pm EDT

How the Science of Game Design Can Inform the Science of Games for Change Tishman Auditorium

3:15pm EDT

Give Me Your Gun: An Interactive Theater Experience Starr Foundation Hall

4:00pm EDT

Increasing Social Impact: Tools to Design Across Sectors Room 105

4:15pm EDT

Extra Life: Play Games, Heal Kids, and Get Involved in Your Community Room 104

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - Digital Medicine: The Quest for the First FDA-Approved Game, with Dr. Adam Gazzaley Tishman Auditorium

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Robin Hunicke on the Importance of Playfulness and Joy in Learning Games Tishman Auditorium

6:15pm EDT

Closing remarks from G4C President, Susanna Pollack Tishman Auditorium