Before the workshop:  Potential participants submit a 2-4 page position paper   in which they address the topic of the workshop. Before the workshop, participants are invited to read all papers from other participants that will be uploaded to the workshop website.

 

During the workshop: The workshop is a half-day workshop.

The preliminary program is as follows:

 

9:00 - 9:15     Welcome and introduction: Goren Gordon, MIT

 

9:15 - 10:30      Paper symposium and discussion: Curiosity assessment

            9:15-9:45: Opening remarks: Jamie Jirout, Rhodes college

            9:45-10:00: Paper presentation: "Quantifying Curiosity and Exploratory Play

                                   on Touchscreen Tablets", Madeline Pelz, Amanda Yung, and Celeste                                          Kidd.

            10:00-10:15: Paper presentation: "Thinking about play: young children’s

                               spontaneous experiments and scientific reasoning", Audrey K.

                               Kittredge, David Klahr, Kevin Willows

            10:15-10:30: Discussion

 

10:30 - 11:00    Break

 

11:00 - 12:00   Paper symposium and discussion: Curiosity promotion

            11:00-11:15: Opening remarks: Susan Engel, Williams College

            11:15-11:30: Paper presentation: "Designing instruments to enhance students’

                                     curiosity in museum contexts: a cross-disciplinary study", Dounia                                       Lahoual, Pauline Gourlet

           11:30-12:00: Discussion 

 

12:00 - 12:15   Round-table discussion and networking

 

12:15 - 12:30  Concluding remarks: Goren Gordon, MIT