Virtual Worlds in the Classroom

Filed in archive General on February 22, 2010

The Internet Time Blog has a great discussion of virtual worlds and education posted at the moment. As an educator, it seems obvious to me that technology (including access to virtual world) will eventually make the classroom of tomorrow almost unrecognizable in comparison to today's classrooms.

Jay Cross (the blog's author) has an excellent take on what makes virtual world's effective learning tools

Learning is social, and I think this has something to do with the power of watching your avatar experience something as opposed to simply imagining it in your mind.

The post is a review of a book by Karl Kapp and Tony O'Driscoll, Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension in Enterprise Learning and Collaboration. It's a book I'll have to find a copy of...