Seann Dikkers is a doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. He holds B.A. degrees in Philosophy, Political Science, and Education and a M.A. degree in Educational Leadership from Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. Dikkers taught middle school social studies in the Twin Cities area for ten years using portfolio and games based instruction in the classroom. He served as a 7-12 Principal where 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 game-based setting.

Dikkers' work since joining the research team at the UW–Madison, under adviser Kurt Squire, has been to develop a curriculum using games-based instruction, assist on Real-Time Research (book forthcoming), explore leadership development using assessment tools and games, research mobile media use 'in the wild' under the MacArthur Foundation's funding, and examine the design of new media school activities.

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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