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Juan Antonio Pacheco Romero

Use and benefits of Avatars in virtual learning | Aspin eLearning - 0 views

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  • 1. Training teachers Avatars are being used specifically for teacher training. Specially designed avatars realistically imitate different types of students to help teachers practice classroom management and relate to their students. The trainee teachers stand in front of a projection screen on which they see avatars that are being controlled, or acted out, by actual students trained to behave a certain way. Other noises or outbursts like laughing or obnoxious sound effects are added to simulate a fully realistic experience
  • 2. Vokis Vokis are speaking avatars, and teachers in all subjects, but especially language classes, are using them by recording their own voices to match their digital avatar. Using more animated avatars helps students who feel disconnected from class discussions or who are more audio learners rather than visual learners process material and relate to the lesson more personally. Language teachers have been using vokis to help students with pronunciation and conversation, letting them voice-over their own avatars.
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  • Morgan Robinson on 12 Mar 14
     
    I argue that this change involves new kinds of communicative relationships between students, and between students and their teachers, and in this sense digital literacy can have a destabilising effect on traditional classroom routines.
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  • Morgan Robinson on 12 Mar 14
     
    'nearly all everyday activities in the contemporary world are mediated by literacy and that people act within a textually mediated social world'
  • Morgan Robinson on 12 Mar 14
     
    As digital communication begins to infuse daily life, the role of literacy in mediating interactions in our social world is changing. To date, there has been relatively little exploration of the literacies of 3D virtual worlds
  • Morgan Robinson on 12 Mar 14
     
    Rich media, tool-tips, hyperlinked and downloadable texts provide clues about the previous inhabitants of Barnsborough
  • Morgan Robinson on 12 Mar 14
     
    Teachers and children in this project inhabit at least three inter-related social realities. These are the social reality of the literacy lessons; the social reality of the computer sessions in which they explore the world; and the social reality of the virtual world itself.
  • Morgan Robinson on 12 Mar 14
     
    Into each of these realities children and teachers import their own social capital, prior experience and values as they interpret the experiences, artefacts, expectations and norms of each environment and negotiate their various understandings. Researching the perspectives and understandings of teachers and children involves looking at aspects of these three social realities, and attempting to read them in relation to one another.
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shared by Juan Antonio Pacheco Romero on 11 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Avatars are excellent for online education. They provide the human interaction that is natural in classrooms and in the traditional learning environment. Message boards, email, and instant messaging are great tools for writing. But what about voice communication! Posting a question on a message board is useful but many times asking the question is better. It is instant, direct, and uses the nuance of voice. Skype works well but avatars are better. Avatars provide a face to the students and a face to the teacher. They provide the human element to online teaching. A Cohen
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