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Educational benefits of Virtual Words

Benefits of Educational Virtual Worlds. Educational benefits of Virtual Words. Educational Virtual Worlds. Are virtual worlds the new classroom or just the new playground?. June 6 th 2008 Get Game Bronwyn Stuckey. What do they look like?. Where are virtual worlds?.

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Educational benefits of Virtual Words

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  1. Benefits of Educational Virtual Worlds Educational benefits of Virtual Words

  2. Educational Virtual Worlds Are virtual worlds the new classroom or just the new playground? June 6th 2008 Get Game Bronwyn Stuckey

  3. What do they look like?

  4. Where are virtual worlds? • List Virtual Worlds by Category • Casual Immersive Worlds • The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds

  5. Whyvillehttp://www.whyville.net/

  6. River Cityhttp://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/ In River City MUVE, students take on a virtual identity and go back in time to "River City." By interacting with virtual citizens and interpreting evidence, students form hypotheses about an ecological problem in the City.

  7. Zonhttp://zondev.educ.msu.edu/WebFront/Game.aspx

  8. Quest Atlantishttp://www.QuestAtlantis.org

  9. Skoolaboratehttp://www.skoolaborate.com/

  10. Skoolaboratehttp://www.skoolaborate.com/

  11. Where are they used? • Mainstream classrooms and most areas of learning • Gifted and talented programs • Special needs students • Kids clubs • Literacy programs • Language programs

  12. What pedagogies & principles apply? • Immersive play spaces • Social learning theory • Constuctivism • Constuctionism • Inquiry learning • Cased-based learning • Situated cognition • Embodied cognition

  13. How do learners benefit? LIBERATING LEARNING • From the school confines • From school hours • From personal issues of esteem and social isolation • From discipline boundaries • To allow learners to be self-directed and self-managed • Knowledge and lust for learning

  14. How are teachers benefiting? • Systems are recognizing their roles Education Queensland virtual world trial – three world environments • Teachers are taking up the design challenge Email to oz-teachers network “Hi All, I'm currently assisting a colleague to develop a SOSE unit where it would be great to create some 3D virtual worlds.  Just wondering what software people are using to do this sort of thing and how successful it has been. ” • Enough worlds and environments out there to offer a developmental sequence.MLC - Quest Atlantis  Skoolaborate

  15. What are the pitfalls and problems? • Duty of care • Consumerism • Imperialism • Bandwidth • Pedagogies • Addiction • Firewalls and security

  16. Who to watch out for? • Sasha Barab • Yasmin Kafai • Ted Castranova • Jim Gee • Constance Steinkhueler • Alan Levine • Westley Field • Jo Kay

  17. Where to learn more? • Games in Learning Community • New Media Consortium • RezEd • Secondlife Educators • Jokaydia • Global kids Digital Media Initiative

  18. So the answer is? Are virtual worlds the new classroom or just the new playground?

  19. Many thanks for listening Bronwyn Stuckey

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