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
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)
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