conference questions
This note last modified November 18, 2024
- 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
- 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
- What are my blind spots as an academic?
- What companies are out there to keep an eye on?
- Evaluation methods
- Creating edugames on a team?
- how do companies get funding and operate?
- How will funding for PBS and the like be affected?
- Research
- What is required to actually make a “framework”
- How to verify if an edugame actually works, especially with complex ideas such as “critical thinking”.
- I want to be an academic, how will I eventually get funding
- Casual Questions
- Are art games a problem for game designers?
- Teaching Track
- How much do academic jobs care that you’ve had teaching 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
- GLAM
- Affordances of an interested audience?
- NLP
- chatbots that are customizable?
- textual similarity?
