The ISN is honored to have
Ms. Tina Miller as our Mistress of Ceremonies who will introduce our amazing keynote speaker. Principal of Howe Elementary in Wisconsin Rapids for the last six years, Tina was named the 2021 Wisconsin Elementary School Principal of the Year, and holds the title of National Distinguished Principal from the National Association of Elementary School Principals. Tina has grounded her leadership in equity and removing barriers to learning for all students.
Keynote AdressAre our schools adapting to the learning modalities of our students? What can we learn from the gaming culture as it relates directly to our learners and how we teach in our classrooms? What can we do differently pedagogically and how do we look to gamification around the social-emotional needs of our learners?
Constance is an engaging, brilliant professor of informatics who will help us all think in new, creative ways about the learners we are serving.
Keynote BioConstance Steinkuehler is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine where she researches culture, cognition, and learning in the context of multiplayer online videogames. She is an ADL Belfer Fellow, Chair of UCI’s Game Design and Interactive Media Program, Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Center, and Chair of the Annual GLS Conference. She teaches courses on games and society, visual design, and research methods. Her current projects include investigations of toxicity and extremism in online games, evaluation of an enriched esports for high school students, and reasoning with misinformation.
Constance formerly served as Senior Policy Analyst under the Obama administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on videogames and digital media. She is the founder of the Federal Games Guild, a working group across federal agencies using games and simulations as tools for thought, and the Higher Education Video Games Alliance, an academic non-for-profit organization of game-related programs in higher education. Her research has been funded by the Anti-Defamation League, the Samueli Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Universities of Cambridge, Wisconsin-Madison, and California-Irvine. She has published over one hundred articles and book chapters including six conference proceedings, four special journal issues, and two books. She has worked closely with the National Research Council and National Academy of Education on special reports relate to videogames, and her work has been featured in
Science,
Wired,
USA Today,
New York Times,
LA Times,
ABC, CBS, CNN NPR, BBC and
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Constance has a PhD in Literacy Studies, an MS in Educational Psychology, and three Bachelor’s Degrees in Mathematics, English, and Religious Studies. Her dissertation was a cognitive ethnography of the MMOs
Lineage I and
II where she ran a large siege guild. Her husband Dr. Kurt Squire is Co-Director of the GLS center at UCI. They live with their two adolescent gamers in Southern California where they enjoy surfing, trail running, camping, and all manner of headset-wearing, dps-flinging, computer-screened mayhem.
