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Joe ShowkerVirtual Worlds... probably time to learn about these new web3.0 tools
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24 Jul 08
Anne Bubnic<b><a href ="http://www.dizzywood.com/">Dizzywood</a></b>, a virtual world and online game for children ages 8-12, today announced that it has been selected by the <b>YMCA of San Francisco </B> to enhance the youth program’s technology curriculum. The YMCA is using Dizzywood’s virtual environment to reinforce its program emphasis on activities that promote values such as caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. Children also learn about important issues relating to virtual worlds, such as digital citizenship and online safety, as well as complete storytelling and team-building exercises that emphasize creativity, writing and reading skills, and working together to achieve goals. The YMCA program is similar to the elementary school program that Dizzywood recently completed with the <b>Reed Union School District </b>(Marin County, CA). The highly interactive workshop, which ran from April through June, used virtual activities to reinforce the school’s character pillars, which include caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility and trustworthiness, among other core values.
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“Dizzywood’s unique virtual environment offers our kids a wonderful environment in which they can learn important lessons through activities that require thoughtful decision-making. We hope the success of this program offers a model for other youth programs to follow.”
The partnership reinforces the findings of two recent studies of elementary school students conducted by UC Davis. The studies observed that children find ways to transform their experiences with technology into fun, highly organized group activities and that technology-based activities can be explicitly designed to foster social reflection and advanced planning among young children.
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Dizzywood will be sharing addtional details about the school and YMCA pilot programs on September 4 at the Virtual Worlds conference in Los Angeles, as well as at the Sandbox Summit in New York City on September 28.
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