{"id":208,"date":"2006-11-09T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/11\/09\/the-school-of-second-life\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T13:48:31","slug":"the-school-of-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/11\/09\/the-school-of-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The School of Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/145\/files\/2006\/11\/worldatfingertips_sm.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" alt=\"worldatfingertips_sm.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" \/><br \/>\nWagner James Au, writing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/1709\">Edutopoia, 2006.11.08<\/a>, &#8220;The School of Second Life: Creating new avenues of pedagogy in a virtual world&#8221; writes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>For those who grew up on computer and video games over the past thirty years, it&#8217;s no surprise that games have become a full-fledged educational tool, merging play with learning in a way that speaks to the digital generation&#8217;s technical literacy. Adding heft to this development, the Federation of American Scientists recently published the results of a year-long study suggesting that games have the power to teach analytical skills, team building, and problem solving on the fly.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Among the most powerful platforms for game-based teaching is Second Life, a virtual world superficially similar to online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft or Sims Online but embedded with numerous features that can make it an ideal pedagogical resource.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>Article continues at <a>www.edutopioa.org\/1709<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tags: Learning, Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner James Au, writing in Edutopoia, 2006.11.08, &#8220;The School of Second Life: Creating new avenues of pedagogy in a virtual world&#8221; writes &#8230; For those who grew up on computer and video games over the past thirty years, it&#8217;s no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/11\/09\/the-school-of-second-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}