Before teaching in Second Life be a student

RUTH MARTÍNEZ SL: AureA Memotech

Role of teacher

Time and tips

Student age

In-world parameters

Assessment

FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN THE USE OF 3D VIRTUAL WORLDS FOR EDUCATION

Get acclimated about how to use the interface.

Rebuild norms for classroom.

Be open to a wider range of learning and styles of expressions/learnings.

Know and use digital media and misture them.

First time Recycling/ Redifying

Role of teacher

Time and tips

Student age

In-world parameters

Assessment

Role of teacher

Time and tips

Student age

In-world parameters

Assessment

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Who is the learner?

NET GENERATION / DIGITAL NATIVES How is the complex internal world of the students’ today in a learning process? “ Student today expect technology to be a natural part of any learning environment because, it has been an integrated part of their lives. They expect technology to be a natural part of any learning environment “ (Oblinger, 2003) “ They think in terms of the activity technology enables and prefer construct their own learning, assembling information, tools and frameworks from a variety of sources ” (Educause. Educating the net generation)

GAP

Role of teacher

Web to Web 2.0

Lecture classes Web 2.0

GAP

Role of teacher Web 2.0 to Web 3D

Web 2.0 Web 3D

GAP

Role of teacher

Web to Web 3D

Lecture classes Web 3D

Learners are co-learners and co-authors

Who is the teacher?

Students absorb the content and then reiterate it Lecture classes. Face to face. 3D virtual world environment classes

? How to use it? Why to use it? INMERSIVE EDUCATION: The combination of 3D/VR and digital media for learning. ( http://immersiveeducation.org/ ) Learning can never be reduced to the way information and ideas are structured for communication. TEACHER: ¡¡¡ You have to reinvent yourself !!!

New Tools, New contexts… New spaces, New Skills…

INMERSIVE LEARNING SIMULATION: A learning systems that combine simulation, pedagoy, and “hard fun” to create a truly engaging and behavior-changing form of learning ( Johannigman, Jeff. Guild Research 360º Report on Inmersive Learning Simulations )

eLearning 3D?

Defining and desining new spaces for learning Lecture classes Web 2.0 Web 3D

? In a distance education class , mainly through a website and through email with their instructors. In a 3D virtual world class , with avatars: sense of class community, engaged in the class, physical representation of their “selves” through their avatars. How create greater levels of interactivity, not just between users, or between users and the internet but between complementary online services and web services, virtual worlds and web 2.0 tools?

It’s all about interactivity?

INTERACTIVITY PEDAGOGY INMERSIVE LEARNING SIMULATION SERIOUS GAME SCENARIO ENGAGEMENT INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY

Describe a thread, but trying to weave the threads together.

If learners sort of tend to stay on one topic or another.

Break the class up into smaller groups for discussions fairly frequently

Give participants the tools to actively engage in the construction of their experiences.

Moderating chat in

3D virtual worlds

 Some how-to tips… EXAMPLE From Rebecca Nesson (Ian Lamont’s Terra Nova interview “Teaching in Second Life: One instructor’s perspective”)

ARG is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions. ( http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game )

Alternate Reality Games

in Second Life

EXAMPLE Virtual Powwow Gold Rush ! Sigil Archive Nutrition Game The TINAG principle This Is Not A Game (From Szulborki, D. and others)

? There is no reason why all content has to be delivered inside of Second Life.

There isn’t a recipe for… but could be a mixture of digital media

Delivering or Desining a learning activity ? LEARNING ACTIVITY

 Learning process governed by the learner Formuling hypotesis Making decisions Troubleshooting problems Consulting maps, guides, blogs, podcasts…

What do you mean with “educative GPS personalized tool”?

= Surfing Choosing Building Creating … . Give them the power to choose their own learning adventure ¡¡ !! = ? =

“ we have now done two trials in Second Life, and they haven’t been perfect, but they have certainly been big successes and very interesting” Rebecca Nesson. Instructor for Virtual Worlds, scheduled for the Fall 2007 semester at the Harvard Extension School and affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Terranova’s interview.