Conference at a Glance

Tuesday

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
18:30 Dinner for Pre-conference workshops (invited participants only)

Wednesday

Wednesday, June 11, 2008: Pre-conference Workshops
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
8:30-12:30 Doctoral Consortium Workshop: Children with Special Needs
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Doctoral Consortium Special Needs
12:30-13:30   Lunch  
Workshop: Marginalized Youth
13:30-15:00 Doctoral Consortium Special Needs
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Doctoral Consortium Special Needs Marginalized Youth
MAIN CONFERENCE BEGINS
17:00 Shuttle to opening reception at Chicago Children Museum(meet in parking lot behind McCormick Tribune Building)
(conference registration will take place on the way into the bus)
18:00 Keynote Address: Dr. Charlotte Cole
Dinner, Dessert and Fireworks: Chicago Children's Museum

Thursday

Thursday, June 12, 2008
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel — Bridging the GapEdith Ackermann (MIT), Kathleen Alfano (Fisher Price), Erik Strommen (Playful Efforts), Scott Traylor (360KID), with commentary by Michael Levine (Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Children's Media and Research)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Children As Designers
  • Broadening Children Involvement as Design Partners (Garzotto)
  • Comparing the Creativity of Children's Design Solutions Based on Expert Assessment (Thang, Sluis-Thiescheffer, Bekker, Eggen)
  • A Modeling Tool to Support Children Making Their Ideas Work (Katterfeldt, Schelhowe)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Math and Science Learning
  • Creating Mathematical Artifacts (Lamberty)
  • Embodying Scientific Concepts in the Physical Space of the Classroom (Malcolm, Moher, Bhatt, Uphoff, Lopez-Silva)
  • Tangible Programming and Informal Science Learning (Horn, Solovey, Jacob)
15:30-17:30 Wine Reception: Posters and demos
Chaired by Warren Buckleitner, Editor, Children's Technology Review
17:30 Shuttle for evening program
18:45-22:00 Summer of George cruise ship in Chicago + dinner + blues concert with Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials

Friday

Friday, June 13, 2008
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel — Screen CulturesJames Paul Gee (Arizona State University), Dan Anderson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Bill Shribman (WGBH), with commentary by Lisa Guernsey (Education and Technology Writer)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Tangible and Tactile Technologies
  • Tangicons (Scharf, Winkler, Michael)
  • Key Issues for the Successful Design of an Intelligent, Interactive Playground (Sturm, Bekker, Groenendaal, Wesselink, Eggen)
  • Huggy Pajama (Teh, Cheok, Peiris, Choi, Thuong, Lai, Chin)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 New Interaction Technologies
  • PointAssist (Hourcade, Perry, Sharma)
  • Playing the Sound Maker (Ante, Droumeva, Corness)
  • Escape Machine (Weller, Do, Gross)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 Special Populations
  • Breaking the Sound Barrier (Huang, Jones, Smith, Spreen)
  • How Children's Individual Needs Challenge the Design of Educational Robotics (Virnes, Karna-Lin, Sutinen)
17:00-18:30 Ice cream reception: Posters and demos
including a special Dust or Magic reunion, hosted by Warren Buckleitner