Sunday, April 22, 2012

One life seems like enough


I am having a hard time understanding the value of second life. The only thing I can come up with is that teaching through gaming can make education more fun for kids. That being my understanding, I don’t think that SL is the best platform to send students. There may be an advantage to virtual worlds in that they can show us things we cannot easily observe. For example in a virtual world you can visit foreign or ancient countries, but again I think that many of those experiences can be had using technology and real students.  I am not really up to date with the social media trends, and I do not even have a facebook account, but I really do not understand, what is the allure of hiding behind an avatar and meeting people who aren’t who they claim to be? What is to be gained by using this vast virtual world which cannot be gained by using real software and educational games?

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