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Play Make Learn: Call for Proposals Open Now!

Thursday, January 16, 2025

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PML Theme: Breaking and Mending: Exploring Messiness, Creativity, and Transformation in Education


The Call for Proposals for the Play Make Learn 2025 Conference is now OPEN!

The PML 2025 Conference will be taking place on Thursday, August 21 and Friday, August 22 at the Memorial Union (800 Langdon St.), right in the heart of the UW-Madison campus. PML creates an inspirational space for preK-12 educators, game designers, developers, innovators, librarians, museum professionals, makers, and researchers to tinker together, share knowledge, and celebrate one another’s work. This conference is a place for collaboration and discovery in the design, research and practice of playful learning, games for learning and positive social impact, making and makerspaces, STEAM education, and arts in education.

To bring together the work of PML communities, this year’s theme is Breaking and Mending: Exploring Messiness, Creativity, and Transformation in Education.

Innovations in educational design and play-based learning often emerge from moments of critical reflection, experimentation, and creative risk-taking - in other words get messy.

Whether through playful experimentation, critical deconstruction, or thoughtful rebuilding, presenters and attendees will explore how “messiness” can lead to meaningful change and stronger, more human-centered learning environments.

More information about our conference theme along with additional information about session proposal formats can be found on the Play Make Learn website. If you are a first-time presenter, or practitioner considering submitting for Play Make Learn and need additional support, reach out to the PML planning team at: conferences@education.wisc.edu.

The deadline for submissions is end-of-day March 7, 2025. Notifications will be sent out regarding proposals in April 2025.

Submit your proposal here!

For general questions about Play Make Learn 2025, please reach out to Chris Baker, Public Library Consultant / Games & Learning Consultant on the DPI’s Library Services Team, at chris.baker@dpi.wi.gov. Alternatively, you can contact conferences@education.wisc.edu.

For questions about this information, contact Chris Baker (608) 264-6709
 

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