Fall Institute 2019 Agenda

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Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019

4:00 Check in Creekside Room
5:00 PM Annual “State of Children’s Interactive Media” Panel with Chris Byrne, Chip Donohue, Barbara Chamberlin, Robin Raskin, Raul Gutierrez and Mark Schlichting.

An overview of the key products and topics that will shape the discussions over the next three days.

Essential topics might include:

  • Dust examples
  • KAPi stories
  • The year of Fred, and what it means
  • Magic examples
  • Chip’s book overview
  • Toys
  • Video Game industry: trends, console hardware, Nintendo Ring, Minecraft and Fortnite
  • New research and publications to know
  • Emerging technologies and trends

Introductions (Riverside Room)

7:00 Introductions
7:30 Emmet O’Neill – Brick by Brick – The Building of an App

Demos and informal exploration

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8:30 Warren Buckleitner. The Interactive Designer’s Cookbook. Making magic isn’t really so magical if you can apply basic psychology

9:00 Designer Brainsprints (part 1) with Daren Carstens and Barbara Chamberlin

10:00 Raul Gutierrez – Things that Go Bump and other Mysteries. Creating meaningful experiences for today’s digital-saturated kids.

10:45 Demos

11:00 Chris Byrne The Pragmatist’s Guide to Innovation: Rules of the Game for the Creativity Economy

11:45 Demos

12:00 Group Photo/Lunch; a non-augmented, non-virtual lunch

1:00 Chip Donohue – Early Childhood and Technology: Thoughts from the Thought Leaders
Chip Donohue just finished a new book, “Exploring Key Issues in Early Childhood and Technology: Evolving Perspectives and Innovative Approaches.” It is a collection of essays about lessons learned, promising practices, and reflections on research and practice from 17 international though leaders in early childhood education, child development, technology, children’s media and research. He’ll share groundbreaking work and ideas that will define the future of interactive media. Join Chip for an “imagined conversation” with the contributing authors to identify evolving perspectives and innovations through their words.

1:45 What’s new? What’s next? What’s going on in the EU? Mark Schlichting and Barbara Chase will share some observations from Amsterdam and the Cinekid Festival. It will create an ideal setting for us all to show and tell products that are defining the next face of children’s interactive media, including smart speakers, mixed reality and so on.

2:30 Designer Brain Sprints Part 2. An active way to address some of the problems facing children’s media designers.

3:15 Designer case study: Schell Games. Melenie Harke, Schell Games. A first look at an autism therapy game, a Smithsonian VR experience and the new Daniel Tiger work.

4:00 Break (on your own for an early supper or general break. Your chance to venture to another state — Pennsylvania — and cross the river from George Washington’s point of view. Note that dinner is on your own).

6:30 Bus departs to TCNJ’s Mayo Hall

7:00 Maxwell King. Celebrating the Work of Fred Rogers

Journalist/ philanthropist /author Maxwell King worked with Fred Rogers during his last years to create the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media in Latrobe, PA, King wrote the acclaimed book “The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers.” King has run both The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowments. From 1990-98, he was editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

  1. Response How do we bring Fred’s work into digital media? Including interactive designers Barbara Chamberlin, NMSU Games Lab; Emmet O’Neill, TouchPress; Raul Gutierrez, Tinybop; Melenie Harke, Schell Games; Robin Raskin, Living in Digital Times and perhaps a few others…
  2. Visit IMM

9:45 Bus departs Return to the Inn at Lambertville Station.

10:00 Informal discussion and technology exploration (Riverside room)

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[highlight]Tuesday, November 5[/highlight]

7:30 Breakfast

8:30 Critics panel with Warren Buckleitner, Chris Byrne, Robin Raskin and Reyne Rice. The awards season is around the corner and the jurors are starting to talk. Each reviewer will bring one example of magic, and one of dust. What apps, games, products, people and companies are on the radar this year, and why?

9:00 Barbara Chamberlin Using an App to Get Kids and Adults to Things Outside the App. NMSU’s latest series for toddlers on physical activity and eating provided some lessons about intentional design strategies.

9:30 Jennifer Crisanti, Splashworks

10:00 Michael Colombo. Designing VR coursework for the skilled tradespeople of tomorrow.

10:30 Robin Raskin Four (or so) Technology Revolutions Shaping the Next Generation

11:30 Review

If you’re staying in the Inn, make sure you checkout of your room by 10:00 AM. It is OK to store bags in the Riverside room.

12:00 Lunch

12:20 Transbridge bus #1 (requires ticket) leaves to Newark Liberty, arriving 1:35 PM (for early flights). Note that departure is from the Hess Station, 5 blocks from the Inn.

1:30 Dust or Magic bus (free) departs to Newark Liberty International Airport, arriving 2:45 PM

1:55 Transbridge bus #2 (requires ticket) departs to Newark Liberty Airport, arriving 3:15 PM

5:50 PM the last Transbridge bus departs to Newark Liberty Airport, arriving 7:15 PM (departs from the Hess Station, 5 blocks from the Inn). You can buy tickets from the Valparaiso Deli, Rt 165 & Rt 518, 609-397-1116

Speaker details

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