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Dan Holt's List: online education
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Oct 14, 09
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Remembering being somewhere is much more powerful than remembering the page something else was on. There really is something to this presence stuff.
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I believe that the use of virtual worlds in education may frighten many people because the concept is so unfamiliar and so dissimilar from traditional educational paradigms
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“fluid intelligence”—the ability to find meaning in confusion and to solve new problems, independent of acquired knowledge. Fluid intelligence doesn’t look much like the capacity to memorize and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. But building it up may improve the capacity to think deeply
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Strengthening our fluid intelligence is the only viable approach to navigating the age of constant connectivity
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Consistently, participants represented by an avatar in a dark cloak or a KKK-like uniform demonstrated negative or anti-social behavior in team situations and in individual writing assignments.
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"By manipulating the appearance of the avatar, you can augment the probability of people thinking and behaving in predictable ways without raising suspicion," said Peña. "Thus, you can automatically make a virtual encounter more competitive or cooperative by simply changing the connotations of one's avatar."
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Jan 13, 10
Send your essay to my avatar
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Large numbers of universities now “have a presence” in Second Life. This means that students and lecturers can meet online in lectures and tutorials. Assignments can be set and delivered. There are formal discussions and chats over coffee. In this way, students remote from the real university can participate in the learning and social side of student life. It’s distance learning as it’s never been seen before.
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