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Curriculum & Instruction 225 North Mills Street Madison WI 53706 |
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Seann Dikkers
After doing the grad work to earn his Administrative license at St. Mary's University, he served as a 7-12 Principal in northern Minnesota for two years. There he led his school in pioneering a new scaffolded-quest platform for SpEd services and worked with Rosetta Stone to build a "Language Lab" for students to take over thirty courses in a games-based setting. Dikkers' work since joining the research team at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, under adviser Kurt Squire, is working with Florida Virtual Academy's curriculum team to develop games based learning using Civilization III. Here in Madison, he is working with John Odom and Shree Durga to develop a leadership training course, with a games and design curriculum, at the Youth Empowerment Academy. In addition to mentoring teachers in methodology, Dikkers' focus of inquiry is the application of games-based learning to teaching the social studies and using games to motivate students and build higher levels of rigor in academic pursuits. Seann currently resides in Madison, WI with his wife Stephanie and two children Grant and Katie. Late at night he still plays computer games, as he has for nearly 25 years. |
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