Dalia/Chris Meeting 2021-03-25

Not sure whether Erin would involve Raymond, but Dalia did choose to involve Simon. Interested in how older kids and younger kids interact.

One thing that occurs to Dalia, perhaps a logistical point, was the rough start of technological issues.

Pilot testing: How can we anticipate issues?

  • Test the server.
  • Fallback hardware, software, accounts
  • One pager tech support. (Maybe kid support?)

Asking Amaya about what would happen in the world.

  • I’d shut down all the factories except the candy factories.

interesting model, the kind of model she was envisioning anyway, a method of guidance

  • Scaffolding / trellising

  • A perfect world: imaginative play and theory of mind. Stable representation

    • “Working out” the worlding muscles.

  • Microworld?

    • (Minecraft has a sort of iconic semiotics…)
    • Game dynamics, quiet year.
    • Parents? Worlds-with-respect-to-worlds.
    • Pedagogy
      • Short & Curly podcast (check out the one on cannibalism)

  • Abstraction. How much resolution is useful?

    • Amaya likes to draw.
    • Probably not programming; this moves away from

  • Collaborative futuring? (game mechanisms?)

  • Player positionality:

    • To be in-game? To be out of game?
    • Children as teachers.

Dalia:

  • Building “true collaboration,” not groupwork.
  • What will it take to build “true collaboration”
  • As important as the world that gets built is the process.
    • Think of Anna Hannan’s math pedagogy.
  • Incorporating parents.
    • Preparing for violent literacies coming up.
    • Antidote? Resources which could be made available in the future.
      • A new framing of “funds of knowledge”
    • Short & Curly podcast

CP Lit review

  • Elementary CT frameworks, assessments.
  • Critical digital gaming