Second Life: Do You Need One? (Part 4) : July 2007 : THE Journal - 0 views
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Barbara Lindsey on 02 Dec 07This is a fascinating insight that should be investigated further.
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Digital learners then typically end up in extremely diverse networks, further expanding their cultural experience in the digital world. Digital learners are also constantly faced with challenges to their established real world social norms and ask some very tough questions about those real world dividers. Many traditional visitors remain in those topic-centered social groups, which typically consist of people of common interest and backgrounds, providing them less immersion into the diversity of the digital environment.
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Most traditional educator-visitors soon ask how they can find the space inworld to create a "classroom." The result is typically a walled building, with ceilings, desks and chairs, and a lectern at the front next to a PowerPoint screen. Digital visitors may also request space for a "classroom," but it is more likely to end up being a platform floating in the sky, with clouds instead of chairs, and digital media streamed onto the side of a giant bubble floating in the middle of the space.
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