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
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Field Day Lab retweeted
6 Jan 2025
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…
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Field Day Lab retweeted
1 Jul 2024
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/…
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Field Day Lab retweeted
27 Jun 2024
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! 🏆
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Field Day Lab retweeted
27 Jun 2024
🧠 Ready to learn something new? The Best in Learning award goes to Headlines and High Water by @fielddaylab!
Congratulations on your 2nd award! 🏆
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Field Day Lab retweeted
26 Jun 2024
Two educational games from Field Day Lab are 2024 Games for Change Awards finalists education.wisc.edu/news/two-… via @UWMadEducation
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Field Day Lab retweeted
29 May 2024
🧠 Best in Learning
Outbreak READY 2!: Thisland in Crisis - @&ranj
Give As We Grow - FableVision
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab
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Field Day Lab retweeted
29 May 2024
💥 Best in Impact
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab
Stay Alive, My Son Chapter 1 & 2 - UME Studios
American Arcadia - @outbluegames
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Field Day Lab retweeted
29 May 2024
🌍 Best in Environmental Impact
@loddlenaut - Moon Lagoon
Wake: Tales from the Aqualab - Field Day Lab
The Plastic Pipeline - @FVStudioBoston
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Field Day Lab retweeted
29 May 2024
🏛️ Best in Civics
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe - @ActZeroGames
Sibel's Journey - Food for Thought Media
Headlines and High Water - @fielddaylab
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28 May 2024
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
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18 May 2024
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…
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Field Day Lab retweeted
14 May 2024
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…
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10 Apr 2024
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
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12 Mar 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 James Paul GEE! Learning Game Awards. geeawards.com
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Field Day Lab retweeted
11 Mar 2024
We're gonna play Headlines in High Water this thursday! 1pm PT / 4pm ET @fielddaylab
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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…
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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.
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Field Day Lab retweeted
26 Jan 2024
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
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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/…
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