Funny, last term I had revised a class similarly. (Are you playing in
Terror Nova, Jay?). Anyhow...I would also recommend the last third of
TL Taylor's book, Play Between Worlds.
On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Jay Lemke wrote:
>
> 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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