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Open Badges - Openness Symposium, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

No abstract provided.

Blowing Up The Gradebook, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

No abstract provided.

Quests, Badges, And Leveling Up In A Game-Based Curriculum, Chris Haskell, Kristi Mesler

Chris Haskell

This research proposal reports on the practice of quest-based/game-based instructional design as well as two years of iterative design-based research (DBR) of the instructional design approach, curriculum, and tool. It also focuses on reportable student data from a semester long project aiming to identify attractive design and satisfying learning experiences in QBL.

Why Game-based Approaches?

Critics of the American education system point to student boredom, lack of personalized and relevant instruction, and a deficit of 21st century skills as challenges to producing productive citizens of a modern, digital society (Eccles & Wingfield, 2002; Ketelhut, 2007; U.S. Department of Education Office …

Experiential Learning In Virtual Worlds, Tom Atkinson, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

Experiential activities are among the most powerful teaching and learning tools available. Join this presentation and open discussion of 4 principles: immersion, identity, interaction, integration, and how imagination and emotion contribute to this process.

Changing The Game Of School: Technology & The Future Of Education, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

Our American educational system will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 100. To understand how it will change, one needs only to look at the rich and tumultuous history of our schools. Colonialism, expansionism, industrialism, and social change have all had dramatic effects on the way our schools have been organized, meet the needs of students, and serve society. The information revolution has changed our world more dramatically than any of the previous paradigm shifts. It will change school as well.

Dr. Haskell will talk about the trends of societal and systemic change, …

Cloud Party: The Intersection Of Virtual Worlds & Mainstream Social Networks, Robin Armstead, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

With the cost of educational spaces in Second Life skyrocketing over the past year, can the Facebook app, Cloud Party, serve as a new medium for synchronous gathering, asynchronous learning spaces, and safe educational spaces? This article explores the merits of using Cloud Party as a learning environment.

Webinar: The Game-Based Curriculum: Directing Learning With Quests, Badges, Achievements, & Truly Personalized Learning, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

No abstract provided.

Understanding Quest-Based Learning [White Paper], Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

Those critical of the American education system point to the lack of student engagement and boredom, the absence of personally relevant content and instruction for diverse learners, and antiquated tools and instructional approaches as issues that prevent student success (Barab et al., 2009; Eccles & Wingfield, 2002; Ketelhut, 2007; U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2010).

Educational institutions, administrators, teachers, students, and parents, continually search for solutions to the problems challenging student success, engagement, and fulfillment of academic expectations. Availability of rich digital content, myriad outlets of information and resources, and new delivery platforms continue to revolutionize student …

3d Gamelab: Quest-Based Pre-Service Teacher Education, Chris Haskell, Lisa Dawley

Chris Haskell

Games and gaming constructs have emerged as a tantalizing and often provocative tool for instructional delivery. Methods and pedagogy for effectively employing games, like quest-based learning, as educational tools are developing. This chapter explores the use of game-based pedagogy for a pre-service teacher education course, as well the development of a quest-based learning management system (3D GameLab) to support the class. The chapter is grounded in design-based research, and discusses four phases of development and theory generation. In each of these phases, the quest-based learning management system, course curriculum, and game-based pedagogy were subject to the same iterative process to …

Digital Age Teaching Skills: A Standards Based Approach, Constance Wyzard, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

No abstract provided.

Design Variables Of Attraction In Quest-Based Learning, Charles Haskell

Chris Haskell

Critics of the American education system point to student boredom, lack of personalized and relevant instruction, and a deficit of 21st century skills as challenges to producing productive citizens of a modern, digital society (Barab et al., 2009; Eccles & Wingfield, 2002; Ketelhut, 2007; U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2010). Digital learning, including game-based approaches, offers opportunities to bring about meaningful, engaging, individualized learning (Barab & Dede, 2007; Gee, 2005; Squire, 2003). Quest-based learning is an instructional design theory of game-based learning that focuses on student activity choice within the curriculum, which offers promising pedagogical possibilities in …

Attractive Quest Design [White Paper], Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

Students learn more, experience more academic success, and are generally more satisfied with the educational experience when motivated and engaged in the curriculum. Video games and their characteristics have been found to motivate students, and in many cases improve academic performance, through a number of systems and tools native to gaming.

Changing The Game: Technology & The Future Of Education, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell is actively piloting and developing groundbreaking alternative approaches to delivering and tracking learning. With co-inventor Dr. Lisa Dawley, Chris created 3D GameLab, a game-based/quest-based learning management system. His classroom serves as a unique game-based technology and pedagogy lab where this new and innovative practice is producing exciting results.

Micro-Cycles : Course Design Model For Mobile Learning, Barbara Schroeder, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

No abstract provided.

Using Mobile Devices To Extend The Classroom, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

The popularity, power, and availability of mobile devices make them powerful tools in the hands of millennial learners. Many teens and preteens are currently using cell phones and mobile devices daily to communicate. When combined with popular social networking tools, iPods, handheld devices and mobile phones can support traditional instruction. This session will outline the benefits to using mobile devices and social networking sites together.

Second Life: Breaking The Classroom Metaphor, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

As we develop instructional systems using Second Life and other virtual worlds, learners find droning lectures, stale slide presentations, and instructional methodologies that are 10 years behind the current thinking. This session will discuss and demonstrate learning by doing in proxy-based learning environments using constructivist and social learning theory approaches to teaching in Second Life and other virtual environments. Participants should bring laptops with Second Life to participate in demonstrations.

Using Web-Based Video To Build And Support Your Curriculum, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

This session will identify critical factors and challenges associated with utilizing existing resources as well as producing and disseminating personal and classroom web-based video. The presenter will discuss and demonstrate the process of creating and publishing persistent video resources online including technical requirements, norms, and current levels of usage. At the University level, Haskell uses web-based video to supplement instruction and promote student reflection. Utilizing Internet-based video as a persistent resource, Mr. Haskell was able to increase interest, bolster recruitment and participation, and secure school support for his high school percussion program. Using web-based video, the Reno high school promoted …

Leveraging Web-Based Video For Learning, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

No abstract provided.

Social Networks And Cooperative Learning, Chris Haskell

Chris Haskell

60% of teens frequent sites like MySpace and Facebook. This session discusses the impact and application of Online Social Networks on teaching and learning and will demonstrate the current scope of OSN's while introducing techniques for collaborative social learning. This session encourages hands-on interaction with social networking sites.

Understanding And Preparing Teachers Of Millennial Learners, Chris Haskell, Connie Pollard

Chris Haskell

This presentation will examine the results of a *Technology Proficiency and Use* survey of over 200 pre-service teacher education students. This session will discuss results, data, and trends related to current levels of technology knowledge, fluency, and patterns of use. The researchers will classify fluency and comfort in unique categories including software, mobile communications, gaming, social networking, and prevalent secondary technology experience. A framework for developing a pre-service teacher education technology class designed to help prepare the knowledge, skill, and comfort of use technology tools for learning and engagement will be provided. Additionally, the session will feature strategies, tools, structures, …