[UCI-Calit2] Science and Technology of DinoQuest

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

                                   IEEE Orange County Computer Society
(OCCS)

                                                          Presents

                        The Science and Technology of DinoQuest and
DinoQuest Online

 

Time/Date:                  9 -11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 25, 2009 

                                    

Topic:                          The Science and Technology of DinoQuest
and DinoQuest Online

 

Speaker:                      Walt Scacchi, senior research scientist
and research faculty member, Institute for Software Research

 

Agenda:                       9 a.m. - Welcome

                                    9:15 a.m. - Presentation

                                    10 a.m. - Q & A 

            

Location:                     Discovery Science Center

                                    2500 North Main Street 

                                    Santa Ana, CA 92705

                                     714-542-CUBE

 

Cost For Event:           (w/ or w/out RSVP)

        Adults                 $12.00

        Children               $9.00

        Parking                 $3.00 (may be free if enter before 9
a.m.)

 

 Prices INCLUDE general admission to the Discovery Science Center 

 

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date (7/25) and number of adults/children 

 

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ABSTRACT

 

DinoQuest and DinoQuest Online represent an exciting innovation in the
application of computer game culture and technology to the problem of
how to make complex scientific knowledge and practice accessible to
young people of all ages. DQ and DQO in many ways represent the state of
the art in science learning game environments, whether as a mixed
reality, distributed sensor network for interactive, hands-on discovery
of concepts from the life sciences and paleontology, an immersive
Web-based learning environment modeled after modern scientific
collaboration practices, and through design and interoperation of DQ and
DQO as an integrated learning environment and experience that addresses
California Science Education Standards for K-6th grade life science.

 

This presentation will discuss the challenges and strategies for how to
make learning science a fun, informal, family-oriented experience
outside of school, as a way to improve and facilitate formal science
education in the classroom.

 

BIOGRAPHY 

 

Walt Scacchi is senior research scientist and research faculty member in
the Institute for Software Research and also research director of the
Computer

Game Culture and Technology Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in
information and computer science at UC Irvine in 1981. From 1981-1998,
he was a professor at the University of Southern California. Scacchi
returned to UC Irvine in 1999. His research interests include open
source software development, as well as computer game culture and
technology. He is an active researcher with more than 150 research
publications. He has directed 45 externally funded research projects. He
also has had numerous consulting and visiting scientist positions with
more than 25 firms or institutes, including five start-up ventures. His
recent activities and publications can be found at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi.

 

 

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