Virtually real education:Virtually real education:Second Life Second Life and the and the MetaverseMetaverse

• The Metaverse

• Pedagogy and Second Life

• Examples of pedagogy in action

• Games people play

Virtually real education

The metaverse

http://www.metaverseroadmap.orgSmart, J.M., Cascio, J. and Paffendorf, J., Metaverse Roadmap Overview, 2007.

Creative Commons License 2007. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

““Our collective online shared space”Our collective online shared space”

Info about & control of

world around user

User has representation

Layers of new control systems & information - physical environment.

What could this mean for us?

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

“an information-drenched physical environment” where 1 D, 2D and 3D applications are used as appropriate

Your use of virtual worlds?

Types of virtual worlds exploring

2D chat rooms tied to social networks

MMOs/MMPORGs/MMORPGs – Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games

Immersive virtual worlds – Second Life

Social interaction with REAL PEOPLE, persistence, immersion

Immersive environments overview

• Starting age?

Image: David ShankboneGNU Free Doucmentation Licensehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Webkinz_kids_by_David_Shankbone.jpg

Immersive environments overview

• Number of immersive environments?• Number of users?

100s of worlds100s of worlds100s of millions of users100s of millions of users

http://www.personalizemedia.com/2008-metaverse-tour-video-the-social-virtual-worlds-a-stage/

Habbo HotelURL: http://habbohotel.com

Age group: 10 to 13 year olds

Registered users: 135 million May 2009

Owner/creator: Sulake Corporation of Finland

Launched: January 2001

Time to chat!How will the Metaverse impact learners and learning?

How will it impact teaching?

What about our private lives?

Pedagogy and immersive environmentsPedagogy and immersive environmentsPedagogy and virtual worldsPedagogy and virtual worlds

Collaborative learning

http://www.wordle.net CC (by) Collaboration in Teaching and Learning report - http://www.educationau.edu.au/SICTAS

From: Pedagogical Design of Learning within Virtual Worlds

Carina Girvan and Timothy SavageCentre for Research in It in Education

Trinity College, DublinUsed with permission

From: Pedagogical Design of Learning within Virtual WorldsCarina Girvan and Timothy Savage Centre for Research in It in Education

Trinity College, Dublin Used with permission

Experiential learning

“In virtual worlds, learners experience the concrete realities that words and symbols describe.”

“Video games and the future of learning” Shaffer, Squire, Halverson, Gee (4)

A sense of presence

Role Play“A safe place to practice”

Simulations of history

Simulations on a grand scale

Representations of complex ideas

Models for real-life planning

Teen Second Life 13 to 17 yrs

Beth Kraemer - http://unicef.blip.tv/file/1361273/ (c)

Teen Second Life

Your insights please...

Education in Quest Atlantis

Purpose-built education environment

Quest Atlantis

http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/#49

Quest Atlantis in Tasmania

Case studies and information supplied by Angela Cooke, SEO eLearning Delivery, Centre for Extended Learning Onlinehttp://www.education.tas.gov.au/celo

• Student-centred • Peer moderation • Circuit-breaker • Problem-solving,• At-risk student • Highly-able

students

For more information…

Bronwyn Stuckey - bestucke@indiana.edu

http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/public/pdInfo.pl

“MMOs help players develop and exercise a skill set closely matching the thinking, planning, learning, and technical skills increasingly in demand by employers.”NASA

NASA Learning Technologies“MMOs help players develop and exercise a skill

set closely matching the thinking, planning, learning, and technical skills increasingly in demand by employers.

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Citations and sitesForrester Research “Getting Real Work Done in Virtual Worlds”

http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,43450,00.html

Webkinz http://www.webkinz.com

Kzero http://www.kzero.com

Collaboration in Teaching and Learning report http://www.educationau.edu.au/SICTAS

Wordle http://www.wordle.net

Virtual Worlds, Inherently Immersive, Highly Social Spaces – Johnson & Levine http://immersiveeducation.org/library/Immersive_Learning-Johnson_and_Levine.pdf

Developing New Learning and Collaboration Environments for Educators: The New Media Consortium in Second Life”

http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/Second_Life_Case_NMC_English.pdf

Hub 2 - pilot initiative funded by the Boston Redevelopment Authority http://hub2.org/

Further links: http://www.diigo.com/user/kerryj