Hemonauts: A Digital Learning Game to Increasing STEM Learning and Disease Literacy in Chronically Ill Children
Overview

Our project has designed and created innovative ways to teach science and math using digital learning games to teach and promote disease and health literacy for chronically-ill children, in which their own medical experience is used as motivation and a springboard for learning. Our presentation will include educational outcome data collected in the game and an opportunity to play the game.

Speakers

ELAISSA HARDY, PHD Emory University

Dr. Hardy is an instructor in Dr. Wilbur Lam’s laboratory in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University and works in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her background is in Electrical Engineering and microelectronic fabrication. In addition to hematologic research, she has a passion for teaching undergraduate students and K-12 students through her in-depth involvement in BME HealthReach, an educational outreach program for chronically-ill patients where they are taught math and science through innovative hands-on activities using their own illness as the springboard for learning. She recently completed a certificate program in Child Life at the University of California Santa Barbara.

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