sticky++Alumni
Christopher Krco
Christopher Krco is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a B.S. in Physics. He was involved in technology for the Nephrotex game, in which freshman engineering students design a membrane for hemodialysis.
Devin West (alumnus 2009-2010)
Devin West studied Engineering Physics as an undergraduate. He was also involved in the Nephrotex game, in which freshman engineering students design a membrane for hemodialysis.
Timothy Kennedy (alumnus 2009-2010)
Timothy Kennedy is a graduate student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Timothy is interested in helping stakeholders make better land use decisions. He worked with Dr. David Williamson Shaffer on the Urban Science epistemic game in which players engage in the professional practices of urban planners and learn how to become ecological thinkers in the process.
Emily Lupton (alumna 2009-2010)
Emily Lupton is a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Studies. Her interest in Epistemic Games was in solving the problem of how best to convey information to students, as well as in literacy and writing instruction. When not creating text for the project’s games, she can be found writing fiction and running marathons.
Alexander Hanna (alumnus 2009-2010)
Alexander Hanna is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a background in sociology and computer science, he is interested in how online social networks and media are utilized in social movement organizing. Alex helped build the Urban Science and Nephrotex game engines.
Avery Davis (alumnus 2009-2010)
Avery Davis is a graduate student in the Educational Psychology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is broadly interested in technology-based educational environments. He is particularly interested how epistemic games might be designed in ways that increase students’ motivation and engagement. Avery worked on the Validation Study.
Aran Nulty (alumna 2006-2008, MEd)
Aran Nulty studied adapting epistemic games to meet the needs of elementary school-aged players. She worked with Padraig Nash on a version of the Digital Zoo game that ran in the Spring of 2007 with a 4th-5th grade class at a Madison K-8 school.
Alecia Magnifico (alumna 2004-2007, MEd)
Alecia Marie Magnifico studied the relationships among writing, literacy, and learning – and how epistemic games can help players develop in all three areas. She worked with David Hatfield on Journalism.net, exploring how the professional practice of journalism can mediate both students’ science literacy and their knowledge about real-world writing.
Kelly Beckett (alumna 2001-2005, MEd)
Kelly Beckett focused on the development of adolescents’ ecological and environmental thinking. Her project, Eco2020, looked at how utilizing Geographic Information Systems as a technology-based learning environment affects and influences the development of this thinking.
