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It’s personal; what are the rights and responsibilities of the learner’s avatar?

Explore the rights and responsibilities of learner's avatars in 3D immersive environments, where learners adopt a new persona. Discover the opportunities and risks of virtual learning.

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It’s personal; what are the rights and responsibilities of the learner’s avatar?

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  1. It’s personal; what are the rights and responsibilities of the learner’s avatar? Lesley Scopes aka Light Sequent John Woollard aka Stradd Ling

  2. These 3D immersive environments, where the learner adopts an avatar and becomes the new persona they devise, are becoming the home for serious learning as well as still retaining their more vicarious activities. “Hardly a week goes by without some reference within the media to the dangers of the internet. Such is the fear raised, that the temptation is to pull the plug and return to life before the PC. This is, of course, a ridiculous and extreme reaction, but nevertheless we have to weigh up the enormous opportunities that the internet can bring against the dangers” (Becta, 2004:1). resilience content, contact and conduct

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  8. . It is the game-like qualities which serve to enrich the virtual environment, setting it aside from the physical world by delimiting activities performed there Facilitating experiences that may be highly improbable in the physical world

  9. Who are we dealing with? flamers spammers scammers philanderers griefers bullies pedophiles

  10. Consider the learner... responsibility entitlement opportunity vulnerability expectation

  11. Cognitive Domain learning outcome focused Social Domain Emotional Domain Dextrous Domain • Cognitive • Dextrous • Social • Emotional When all Learning Domains are engaged a condition of immersion is attained which promotes deeper learning and retention 30

  12. RolePlay Peregrination Assessment Affordances of 3Di World Meshed Simulation Instructional strategies as building blocks for facilitating learning 35

  13. Learning Archetypes as tools of Cybergogy for a 3D educational landscape: A structure for eTeaching in Second Life Scopes L.J. (2009) Full paper available at: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66169/ Full (1 hr) video version of ‘Castles in the Air’ presentation available at: http://www.blip.tv/file/2320570/ Contributor to Kapp & O’Driscoll (2010) ‘Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration’, Pfeiffer, USA (Chapter 5, p89 – 117) http://www.amazon.com/ 3D Virtual World Learning Handbook Editors: Charles Wankel and Randy Hinrichs Initial teacher training in a virtual world Woollard, J and Scopes, L Cybergogy – practical pedagogy for virtual worlds Scopes, L and Woollard, J (under commission) ITTE Conference 2010 This time, IT’s personal… Liverpool Hope University Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and DisabilityNottingham Trent University, Nottingham 26th and 27th October Psychology for the Classroom: E-Learning Woollard, J (to be published) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415590938

  14. It’s personal; what are the rights and responsibilities of the learner’s avatar? Lesley Scopes aka Light Sequent John Woollard aka Stradd Ling

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