Looking for job (Education PhD at UW-Madison)
Madison, Wisconsin Area
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- Game Designer at Local Games Lab
- Assistant Director at Flying Moose Lodge
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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John Martin’s Summary
John Martin is a doctoral student in the Educational Communications and Technology area in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in Learning Sciences and a specialization in Games, Learning, and Society. He is currently working on a dissertation tentatively titled "Sociocultural Learning in the Play and Design of Place-Based Augmented Reality Games" under Dr. Kurt Squire. His passion is for a deep woods camp in Maine called Flying Moose Lodge hat he's helped run since 1993.
Appropriately then, his specific research combines the chewy adventure of camp with a rigorous academic coating, by taking the appeal of good video games (and the significant in-game and out-of-game learning they compel), and bringing it outdoors with handheld GPS-enabled computers for a more fully embodied game in culturally meaningful physical spaces. In the experience, players critique and redesign a place-based game for their peers. The experience of playing and redesigning the game requires understanding and examination of cultural mores, whole-body physical activity in a geographical space that through the game has become even more culturally relevant, and the employment of strategies in problem posing and solving in order to come up with a peer-worthy game.
John Martin’s Experience
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Game Designer
Local Games Lab
(E-Learning industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Design and Research mobile Augmented Reality games for science, reading, and social studies.
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Assistant Director
Flying Moose Lodge
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
June 1993 — Present (16 years 6 months)
A woods camp for boys that stresses experiential/expeditionary learning through weekly canoeing and hiking trips. No electricity.
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John Martin’s Interests:
experiential and design-based learning, canoeing, place-based learning, technology, sustainable design
