conference questions

This note last modified October 1, 2025
  • General
    • What are you working on?
    • What’s your story / path to where you are now?
    • What are the must read resources in your field?
  • Pedagogy
    • How do you take a learning framework and actually develop a lesson plan around it?
    • How does learning sciences avoid the issue of everything being a nightmare of variables?
    • Is psychological reactance the right term for people digging their heels in?
  • Philosophy / Ethics
    • Leading horses to water and making them drink?
  • Games
    • Do non simulation based edugames work?
    • What do you think of “games definitely work, but the real question is are they worth it?”
    • Design challenges, esp. K-12
  • Industry
    • How can I sell myself?
      • Show off my leadership skills?
    • What are my blind spots as an academic?
    • What companies are out there to keep an eye on?
    • how do companies get funding and operate?
    • where do you sell your games?
    • How will funding for PBS and the like be affected?
    • setting myself up for product management roles
    • Should I sign up for senior roles or junior roles
  • Research
    • How to verify if an edugame actually works, especially with complex ideas such as “critical thinking”.
  • Casual Questions
    • Are art games a problem for game designers?
  • Teaching Track
    • How much do academic jobs care that you’ve had industry experience?
    • How to beef up my resume for teaching track positions
    • How to make sure a university respects their teaching track professors.
    • Dealing with a conservative presidency
    • Is my CV good?
    • What’s the point of a cover letter?
    • Places with a game design program
    • 2 body problem
    • AI job positions?
    • Using AI in the classroom
  • GLAM
    • Affordances of an interested audience?
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