1.Slides: tinyurl.com/kempnolaAvatars:Remove Attachments, Take a SeatThe insidious way our teacher/student powerdynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and themissed opportunity to find our inner Dewey Jeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State Universitys SLIS UNO Virtual

2. Jeremy Kemp - Who am I? Full-time lecturer at SJSU SLISStarted teaching online in 1999Second Life wiki for educatorswww.simteach.comsloodle.org mashup (SL Moodle, Angel LMS) 3 UNO Virtual 3. 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?4 UNO Virtual 4. POLL 2 Describe your Second Life effort?Not interestedThinking or grouping togetherActively planning an SL presenceResearch within SLDeveloping tools and simulations within SLStaging an exhibitionDepartment or center presenceUsing SL to support a course or moduleSupporting developments across several departmentsBuilding a campus-wide presence5 UNO Virtual 5. John Dewey -Democracy and Educationhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm6 UNO Virtual 6. Paulo Freire -Pedagogy of the Oppressedhttp://preview.tinyurl.com/friereBanking concept of educationTransmission ModelProgrammed InstructionClassroom managementProblem-posing and dialogStudent as teacher enabling peasant scholars 7 UNO Virtual 7. Seymour Papert -Situating Constructionismhttp://www.papert.org/articles /SituatingConstructionism.htmlLogo languageLego Mindstorm 8 UNO Virtual 8. Will Wright -Simulations for LearningMontessori taught me the joy of discovery. It showed you can become interested in pretty complex theories, like Pythagorean theory, say, by playing with blocks. Its all about learning on your terms, rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you. SimCity comes right out of Montessori.- http://tinyurl.com/willwrightnyVideo talk at TED: http://tinyurl.com/willwrightted9 UNO Virtual 9. 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%2710 UNO Virtual 10. Concreteness Fading AbstractConcrete RepresentationRepresentationConcreteAbstract RepresentationRepresentationGoldstone. (2005). The transfer of scientific principles using concreteand idealized simulations. The Journal of the Learning Sciences 11 UNO Virtual 11. Concretenesshttp://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/200/190 12 UNO Virtual 12. Abstractionhttp://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/85/23013 UNO Virtual 13. Were born as monkeys Like: Doors, stairs, roof Have: Limited control Need: A roof over head Build for: Verisimilitude 14 UNO Virtual 14. We grow into birds Like: Stoops, atriums Have: Wings and bodycomfort Need: Airport signals,landing markers Build: Phantom barriers 15 UNO Virtual 15. Some settle into spirits Dislike: imposed UI Use Unconstrained Cameracontrols Need Unfettered views Build: For out-of-bodyexperience 16 UNO Virtual 16. Island Home pages PanoramasNMC Orientation Svarga Particle Lab 17 UNO Virtual 17. Libr 287: Virtual Worlds 18 UNO Virtual 18. Libr 287: Quests Asynchronous learning Biweekly deadline Students welcome to create their own Some build on each other Student upload A LOT of pictures 19 UNO Virtual 19. Game-based learning 20 UNO Virtual 20. Libr 287: vPortfolio Summative assessment Place-based learning Constuctionist Scaffold for Eusociality 21 UNO Virtual 21. Libr 287: vPortfolio 22 UNO Virtual 22. Libr 287: vPortfolio 23 UNO Virtual 23. Libr 287: vPortfolio 24 UNO Virtual 24. Slides: tinyurl.com/kempjbAvatars:Remove Attachments, Take a SeatThe insidious way our teacher/student powerdynamic is being re-imposed in 3D and themissed opportunity to find our inner DeweyJeremy Kemp, M.S.J., M.Ed. with San Jose State Universitys SLIS UNO Virtual 25. 26 UNO Virtual