2015 Summer Design Camp Agenda

Day 1: Bush Room 10-105
9:00am	Welcome and Introductions
9:30am	Getting to Know You Icebreaker Activity
10am	Starting to play with design Short design activity
11:15am	BREAK
11:30am	Goal Setting Co-constructing goals for the week
12:30am	LUNCH with guest speakers: Anant Agarwal, Melanie MacFarlane, Elena Hui Topics will cover teacher PD, AP Courses, edX in India
1:30pm	Defining a Module Exploring and sketching out what we mean by “module”
3:00pm	BREAK
3:15pm	Play Together and Reflect/Review Fun Group Activity
4:45pm	Wrap Up and Clean Up

Day 2: 66-160
9:00am	Designing a Learning Game One day walk-through of the learning game design process
9:30am	Small groups discuss and pick game topic
9:45am	Group debrief
10:00am	Game Design Tool Kit Introduction
10:30am	BREAK
10:45am	Small groups continue design work, refine the concept
12:30pm	LUNCH with guest speaker: Justin Reich
1:30pm	Introduction on Play-testing and Playable Prototypes
3:15pm	BREAK
3:30pm	Play with Others
4:00pm	Debrief

Day 3: 66-160
9:00am	Design Teams – Working Session Start Break into teams, begin module design and prototype development.
10:00am	Platform Demos
10:30am	Whole Group Discussion (with BREAK) Leveraging outside materials and resources
12:30pm	LUNCH with Presentation Telangana i2C Pilot
1:30pm	Design Teams continue Pick one of the high needs areas and start to design your original software.
3:30pm	Report Back on game concept to lab staff
4:00pm	Debrief

Day 4: 66-160
9:00am	Continue Design Working Session Build a playable prototype, begin testing and refinement.
12:30pm	LUNCH – Discussion on Formative Assessment Led by Jen Groff
1:30pm	Continue Design Working Session Continue play-testing and refinement
4:00pm	Debrief

Day 5: 66-160
9:00am	Build/Test/Iterate
12:30am	Lunch with guest speaker: Prof. Chris Dede, Harvard Designing for Scale
1:30pm	Demos – Round Robin
3:30pm	Culminating Activity

Day 6: Bush Room 10-105
9:00am	Reflection and Goals
9:30am	Technology Discussion
11:30am	Module Timeline Working Groups
12:30pm	LUNCH: Deepak
1:30pm	Confer with a Developer Get a taste of what it’s like to be working with a developer to bring your idea to digital life.
2:30pm	Science Lab Demo Biology teacher Hal Scheintaub will demonstrate how he connects technology experiences with science labs in his classroom.
4:00pm

Day 7: 32-144 in Stata
9:00am	The Story of Radix
10:30am	TPD Discussion
11:30am	Module Design
12:30pm	LUNCH: Glenda Stump
1:30pm	Possible Assessment Discussion
2:30pm	Unstructured Work Time Continue working on game ideas, or other sessions/tutorials of interest.
2:30pm	Wrike Training (Optional) Bring any questions you have on Wrike.

Day 8: 32-144 in Stata
9:00am	Unstructured Work Time Continue working on game ideas, or other sessions/tutorials of interest.
11:15am	Picture Time
12:00pm	LUNCH: Sanja Sarma
1:00pm	Unstructured Work Time Continue working on game ideas, or other sessions/tutorials of interest.
2:00pm	Wrap Up and Reflection
3:00pm	Presentations on Module Work

Day 9: Bush Room 10-105
9:30am	Chandita Mukherjee
10:30am	Kathy Vandiver, Edgerton, MIT
11:30am	Sarita Pillai, Senior Project Leader, Learning and Teaching Division, EDC
12:30pm	LUNCH
1:30pm	John Gabrieli, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
2:30pm	Wrap-Up
3:00pm	MIT Tour Includes a visit to TEAL – Peter Dourmashkin

Day 10: Bush Room 10-105 & Media Lab
10:00am	Presentation, Talk 1 Room 240
10:30am	Presentation, Talk 2 Room 240
11:15am	Media Lab Tour
12:00pm	LUNCH and Presentation, Talk 3 Room 240
1:00pm	Goodbyes Bush Room 10-105