Global Kids staff Rafi Santo and Amira Fouad present about how virtual worlds can be used to educate teens for a new century where new media literacies will be necessary. Prepared for the conference "Teaching and Learning in a Media Saturated World" held at MIT on October 27th, 2007.

1. Global Kids

2. Virtual Worlds, Real Skills Creating and Learning in a Media Saturated World 10/27/07 Amira Fouad & Rafi Santo

3. The matrix

4. Snow crash

5. Star Trek

6. Star Trek & the holodeck

7. X-men danger room

8. The real life classroom

9. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture

12. [MULT] Teaching economics is real life classroom

13. [MULT] The SL Physical space

14. [MULT] SL with Basic UI

15. [MULT] SL w/chat history

16. [MULT] SL w/chat history and IM’s

17. [MULT] SL w/chat, IM’s, Inventory

18. [MULT] SL w/chat, IM’s, Inventory, minimap

19. [MULT] SL w/full on UI windows open

20. [MULT] SL UI w/ just visual and build

21. [MULT] SL w/full on UI windows open

22. [MULT] SL w/just visual and IM’s

23. [MULT] SL w/full on UI windows open

24. [MULT] SL w/just chat history, no visuals

25. [MULT] SL w/full on UI windows open

26. [MULT] The SL physical space

27. [MULT] SL w/full on UI windows open

29. [JUDG] WFFC - Blackboard on Afghanistan

30. [JUDG] WFFC - Ibrahim’s story

33. [NEG] Negotiation

34. [NEG] goth kid from Omaha

35. [NEG] teen from what would be called inner city, Canarsie, Brooklyn

36. [NEG] from Russia

37. [NEG] from rural BC in Canada

38. [NEG] from Indiana, who had to use her mom’s roommate’s computer to access SL