Conferences

An interdisciplinary gathering on visualization in science education

August 15, 2017Camillia Matuk No Comments

My first time at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science Education was years ago as a graduate student. This year, I had the honour of being an invited speaker. I spoke about the importance of integrating graphing into inquiry science, and the possibilities this presents for supporting and understanding students’ science learning. It … Continue reading An interdisciplinary gathering on visualization in science education

Explorations of an afterschool game design workshop

January 20, 2017Camillia Matuk No Comments

We participated in this year’s Subway Summit on Cognition and Education Research, which, for the last decade, has been a forum for students and faculty of NYC institutions to share and discuss their work. Rinat Levy-Cohen presented our poster, which describes findings from a game-design workshop we hosted earlier last year at MAGNET for an 8th grader maker club. … Continue reading Explorations of an afterschool game design workshop

How questions can be prototypes in game design

October 16, 2016Camillia Matuk No Comments

At the FabLearn 2016 conference this October, we presented a study on a children’s game design workshop hosted at MAGNET earlier this year. It contrasts two cases of students who approached the task of paper prototyping their digital games from very different places, and explores the role of facilitator questions in advancing their design thinking. Please have a look! Matuk, C., Levy-Cohen, R. & Pawar, … Continue reading How questions can be prototypes in game design

Dashboards, graphs, and a symposium (Oh My!)

June 30, 2016Camillia Matuk No Comments

Check out our three contributions to the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2016), held this year at the National Institute of Technology in sunny (rainy, hot, humid, sticky) Singapore! This one is an analysis done with Irina Uk on existing data: Uk, I., Matuk, C., & Linn, M. C. (2016). Students using graphs to understand the process … Continue reading Dashboards, graphs, and a symposium (Oh My!)