We design educational games to connect research with the public, then use those games to study how learning takes place @UWMadison @wcer led by @djgagnon
Wisconsin, USA
Joined November 2014
- Tweets2.7K
- Following852
- Followers943
- Likes972
Field Day Lab retweeted
Hiring a project manager with expertise in research infrastructure to build a system to use game data to study thinking and learning. Help us find our match! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/field-day…
Field Day Lab retweeted
Congrats to @suerobinsonUW and @fielddaylab
for winning two @G4C Awards! Their team won Best in Learning and Best in Civics for Headlines and High Water, which teaches media literacy skills by allowing students to step into the shoes of a young journalist. festival.gamesforchange.org/…
Field Day Lab retweeted
Drum roll please, the Best in Civics goes to Headlines and High Water by @fielddaylab!
Players take on the role of a young journalist in the town of Twin Lakes, where a catastrophic flood throws the annual Cherry Festival into chaos.
Congrats! 🏆
Field Day Lab retweeted
🧠 Ready to learn something new? The Best in Learning award goes to Headlines and High Water by @fielddaylab!
Congratulations on your 2nd award! 🏆
Field Day Lab retweeted
Two educational games from Field Day Lab are 2024 Games for Change Awards finalists education.wisc.edu/news/two-… via @UWMadEducation
Field Day Lab retweeted
🧠 Best in Learning
Outbreak READY 2!: Thisland in Crisis - @&ranj
Give As We Grow - FableVision
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab
Field Day Lab retweeted
💥 Best in Impact
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab
Stay Alive, My Son Chapter 1 & 2 - UME Studios
American Arcadia - @outbluegames
Field Day Lab retweeted
🌍 Best in Environmental Impact
@loddlenaut - Moon Lagoon
Wake: Tales from the Aqualab - Field Day Lab
The Plastic Pipeline - @FVStudioBoston
Field Day Lab retweeted
🏛️ Best in Civics
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe - @ActZeroGames
Sibel's Journey - Food for Thought Media
Headlines and High Water - @fielddaylab
7k lines of script later, Wake is now in Spanish! We've gone well beyond translation and have created a story about a multilingual Latine character coming into their own as a researcher. Give it a try with your students. fielddaylab.wisc.edu/play/wa… @WCER_UW @CADREK12 @UWMadEducation
Wake: Tales from the Aqualab had it's biggest month to date with over 22k players! Try it out with your science classroom. fielddaylab.wisc.edu/play/wa…
Field Day Lab retweeted
A new video game from @FieldDayLab teaches students how to harness systems engineering and attempt to navigate one of the biggest environmental challenges facing the U.S. right now — and it all has to do with cow poop.
education.wisc.edu/news/uw-m…
We are thrilled to rejuvenate the collaboration with @WisconsinDPI, specifically @WisDPIpubLibDev to co-develop learning games with educators. This year we are making a game about the @NSF @uw_icecube instrument in the South Pole. See dpi.wi.gov/news/dpi-connecte…
@WCER_UW @uw_wipac
Applications are now open for the 2024 James Paul GEE! Learning Game Awards. geeawards.com
Field Day Lab retweeted
We're gonna play Headlines in High Water this thursday! 1pm PT / 4pm ET @fielddaylab
Field Day Lab retweeted
Last week, our scientists met with a select group of state teachers and librarians, and @WCER_UW 's @fielddaylab to help develop a new astrophysics-themed video game based on current WIPAC research.
Read more about the workshop and the project ➡️ wipac.wisc.edu/wipac-scienti…
ALT A group of people posing in front of a building
ALT A person pointing at a tv screen in front of a group of people
ALT A person with a virtual reality headset on playing a game
ALT Two people standing in front of a group of people sitting at tables
Field Day Lab retweeted
WCER's @fielddaylab will host a select group of state teachers & librarians Friday to help create a new educational computer game that will take young learners to the furthest reaches of space based on latest @uw_wipac research. Media welcome.
@djgagnon go.wisc.edu/9gf616
Field Day Lab retweeted
It's National News Literacy Week and Sarah Gagnon was on the news today talking about our Journalism Game, Headlines and High Water. The world is having an emergency of epistemology - hopefully we are part of the solution. nbc26.com/news/local-news/te… @WCER_UW @suerobinsonUW
Field Day Lab retweeted
Tales from the Aqualab. Play it and then leave a review at the Science Game Center, so other's can find it! @fielddaylab sciencegamecenter.org/games/…