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Avatars: Remove Attachments, Take a Seat The insidious way our teacher/student power dynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and the missed opportunity to find our inner Dewey Jeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State University’s SLIS Slides: tinyurl.com/kempnola UNO Virtual

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Avatars:

Remove Attachments, Take a Seat The insidious way our teacher/student power

dynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and the

missed opportunity to find our inner Dewey

Jeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State University’s SLIS

Slides: tinyurl.com/kempnola

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Jeremy Kemp - Who am I? …

Full-time lecturer at SJSU SLIS

Started teaching online in 1999

Second Life wiki for educators

www.simteach.com

sloodle.org mashup (SL <-> Moodle, Angel LMS)

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Do we know how to…

“Birth” a student through launching their avatar

Teach students to create their own content?

Manage strangers for security, griefing, litter patrol?

Set estate and land permissions for access and building?

Give students controls: peer teaching, present, space design?

Create asynchronous learning gadgets and games?

Promote and manage synchronous events?

Deliver content WITHOUT lecturing with slides?

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POLL 2 – Describe your Second Life effort?

Not interested

Thinking or grouping together

Actively planning an SL presence

Research within SL

Developing tools and simulations within SL

Staging an exhibition

Department or center presence

Using SL to support a course or module

Supporting developments across several departments

Building a campus-wide presence

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John Dewey -

Democracy and Education

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm

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Paulo Freire -

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

http://preview.tinyurl.com/friere

“Banking” concept of education

Transmission Model

Programmed Instruction

Classroom management

Problem-posing and dialog

Student as teacher – enabling peasant scholars

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Seymour Papert -

Situating Constructionism

http://www.papert.org/articles

/SituatingConstructionism.html

Logo language

Lego Mindstorm

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Will Wright -

Simulations for Learning

“Montessori taught me the joy of discovery. It showed

you can become interested in pretty complex

theories, like Pythagorean theory, say, by playing

with blocks. It’s all about learning on your terms,

rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you.

SimCity comes right out of Montessori.”

- http://tinyurl.com/willwrightny

Video talk at TED: http://tinyurl.com/willwrightted

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Robin Harper -

LL Community VP (previously Maxis Marketing)

“The word 'users' doesn't do a very good job of

describing the two-way nature of Second Life,

where the people involved are providing content

and contributing to the experience.”

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Origin_of_the_term

_%27Resident%27

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Concreteness Fading

Abstract

Representation

Concrete

Representation

Concrete

Representation

Abstract

Representation

Goldstone. (2005). The transfer of scientific principles using concrete

and idealized simulations. The Journal of the Learning Sciences

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Concreteness

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/200/190

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Abstraction

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/85/230

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We’re born as monkeys

Like: Doors, stairs, roof

Have: Limited control

Need: A roof over head

Build for: Verisimilitude

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We grow into birds

Like: Stoops, atriums

Have: Wings and body

comfort

Need: Airport signals,

landing markers

Build: Phantom barriers

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Some settle into spirits

Dislike: imposed UI

Use Unconstrained Camera controls

Need Unfettered views

Build: For out-of-body experience

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Island “Home pages” Panoramas

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NMC Orientation

Svarga

Particle Lab

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Libr 287: Virtual Worlds

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Libr 287: Quests

Asynchronous learning

Biweekly deadline

Students welcome to create their own

Some build on each other

Student upload A LOT of pictures

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Game-based learning

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Libr 287: vPortfolio

Summative assessment

Place-based learning

Constuctionist

Scaffold for Eusociality

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Libr 287: vPortfolio

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Libr 287: vPortfolio

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Libr 287: vPortfolio

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Jeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State University’s SLIS

Slides: tinyurl.com/kempjb

Avatars:

Remove Attachments, Take a Seat The insidious way our teacher/student power

dynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and the

missed opportunity to find our inner Dewey

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