Meagan Rothschild

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Meagan Rothschild is an Instructional Design and Educational Programs consultant in Madison, Wisconsin. She recently made the courageous leap to chilly Wisconsin from balmy Hawaii to pursue her PhD with the Games, Learning, and Society program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to her move, Meagan served as the Instructional Designer for Cosmos Chaos!, an innovative video game designed to support struggling fourth grade readers developed by Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL). Her experience at PREL also included the design of a violence and substance abuse prevention curriculum for Native Hawaiian students, using an interdisciplinary approach that merges health and language arts content standards to support literacy driven prevention activities.

Meagan has served in the Hawaii Department of Education system for six years in varied roles, including high school classroom teacher, grant writer and manager, technology coordinator, and Magnet E-academy coordinator. Meagan has a BA and MEd from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with undergraduate studies in Hawaiian Language and special education, and a post graduate degree in Educational Technology. As a PhD student at the UW, her work now focuses on planning and developing multimedia environments that merge research-based educational principles with gaming strategies to engage student learners.

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