A very interesting, erudite and informative website, Jay. Thanks!
Eirik.
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>
> I have been away for a while, and too busy to participate much in
> xmca lately, but noticed this message today. You might have a look at
> a draft of a research proposal on my website
> www.umich.edu/~jaylemke/ [click on New Additions to get to the link]
>
> It proposes comparing learning affordances and their uptake by users
> in commercial computer games and in educational software. There are
> references to several projects currently trying to make virtual
> learning environments in the mold of multiplayer games, and there is
> great promise in a social approach (guilds in online gameworlds,
> studied by Steinkuehler at Wisconsin; Whyville, studied by Yasmin
> Kafai at UCLA, etc.).
>
> I am giving a new course this term on new media literacies, identity,
> and learning. The syllabus and readings should be on my website in a
> week. Of course it's a big subject, from asynchronous e-learning, to
> emergent collective intelligence, to new learning environments and media.
>
> Steinkuehler's work in particular shows an apprenticeship model (with
> reciprocal learning by the mentor) as it turns up in an online
> gameworld. It's very zoped-like, and she is exploring CHAT as a
> theoretical model in her wider work.
>
> JAY.
>
>
> At 05:14 PM 1/3/2007, you wrote:
>>Why not? Sounds like a good idea to me.
>>
>>Eirik.
>>
>>--------------------
>> > Could virtual learning environments be organized more like social
>> > virtual environments (my space, you tube, etc)??
>> > Ana
>> >
>> > Eirik Knutsson wrote:
>> >> I agree with Mike here: Judging from my experience as a student,
>> online
>> >> courses enable participation of usually more silent students becoming
>> >> relatively more active and visible.
>> >>
>> >> I also agree that virtual environments now available offer a lot of
>> new
>> >> and interesting potentials for creating environments were students
>> can
>> >> be
>> >> more active, more individualistic learners.
>> >>
>> >> Who are these "silent students"? If they are contemplative, introvert
>> >> individualists - as opposed to consensus-oriented, extrovert
>> >> "collectivists" - I think there is good reason to believe that they
>> have
>> >> a
>> >> lot to gain from these new virtual learning environments.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Eirik
>> >>
>>
>>
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