JOHN PARRIS
EDC CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND TECHNOLOGY
96 MORTON STREET, 7TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10014
(212) 807-4213 — JPARRIS@EDC.ORG
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
University of Delaware
Fine Arts: Sculpture
BA–1982
Philadelphia College of Art
Film and Animation
1979–1980
CURRENT POSITION
Senior Researcher and Designer, Center for Children and Technology—Learning and Teaching Division
SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Producer, U.S. Department of Education Institue of Education Sciences-funded Possible Worlds (A
National Research and Development Center on Instructional Technology). (2008–2013)
Designer/Researcher, Portable Word Play. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (2010–
2011)
Researcher, Living Room Candidate website. Museum of the Moving Image. (2008–2010)
Designer/Researcher, website redesign for National Geographic Education and Children’s Programs.
(2007–2009)
Evaluator, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History NSF ITEST project, DesignIT Studio. (2003–
2007)
Designer, Teaching “The Children of Willesden Lane,” online teacher workshop, Annenberg
Media/CPB. (2005–2006)
Researcher, NSF-funded PIE Network Evaluation. (2001–2003)
Project Manager/Designer, Council for Basic Education Schools around the World website
development project. (1998–2003)
Designer, Picturing Modern America website development project. (2000–2002)
Project Manager/Designer, IBM KidSmart Early Learning website. (2000–2001)
Advisor, Youth2Youth.org program, Whitney Museum of Art. (1999-2000)
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Games for Health (Boston, May 2011) Designing for Mobile Classroom Games
GDC09 (San Francisco, March 2009) Building Better RFPS for Serious Games
COLLABORATIONS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS
 Jason Jeffries, Blenderbox
 Jacqueline Miller, Education Development Center, Inc.
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Tobi Saulnier, 1st Playable Productions, LLC
Christopher Wisniewski, Museum of the Moving Image
Marian Pasquale, Education Development Center, Inc.
Daniel Edelson, National Geographic Society
Robert Spielvogel, Education Development Center, Inc.
Miriam Lewin, Lavine Productions
Chip Lindsey, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Margaret Honey, New York Hall of Science
Mitchell Resnick, Massachusettes Institute of Technology Media Lab
Natalie Rusk, Massachusettes Institute of Technology Media Lab, University of Minnesota
Bill Tally, EDC/Center for Children and Technology
Cornelia Brunner, EDC/Center for Children and Technology
Sherry Swick, IBM Corporate Community Relations