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The Summer Institute at Wallenberg
Hall: Using Videogames in Education
What: The Institute at Wallenberg
Hall:
Using Videogames in Education
This intensive, five-day workshop, led by acknowledged
world leaders in this new and rapidly growing field,
is designed to make participants aware of the vast educational
potential of videogame technology and to provide guided,
hands-on experience at designing and using videogames
in education.
Who Should Participate: K-12,
college and university faculty and/or administrators
seeking to
make
use of
videogames and videogame technology in the education
process.
When: August 6 - 10, 2007 Class sessions
are on Mon., Tue., Thur., and Fri; Wednesday is a themed
excursion day, including a visit to Electronic Arts.
Course Director: Keith
Devlin, Executive
Director, HSTAR
Featured Experts: The main session
minicourse will be given by James
Paul Gee, widely regarded
as the leading expert in the world on the use of videogames
in education.
Elisabeth Hayes will run
daily hands-on, interactive tutorial sessions so that
participants can explore some
of the ideas Professor Gee will present. Dr. Hayes
is a leading scholar in the study of the educational
uses
of videogame environments, and has published a number
of seminal articles on that topic.
Guest presentations
will be given by Byron
Reeves, Nick Yee, and Henry
Lowood, with a dinner presentation
from a leading Silicon Valley innovator.
Cost: $1500 General + $250 lab fees
More Information: Contact Keith
Devlin,
Course Director
Registration:
Register
Now!
Once your application is processed at SCIL you will
receive an acknowledgement and an invoice payable by
check.
Registration deadline: May 31, 2007
Payment due: June 16, 2007
Reservations may be cancelled without penalty before
June 16, 2007
Cancellations after June 17 and before July 7, liable for 50% of charge
Cancellations after July 8, liable for 100% of charges
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