There are so many different focuses of educational uses of Second Life but first I Let's talk about how teachers are using Second Life in RL (real life). I will share some great worlds and share some ideas on how they are being used or how you and I can use these tools in the classroom.
Centre for Water Studies @ Better World Island (click on links to Teleport to world)
This world includes six distinct habitats that simulate real water life. Each habitat includes notecards, animals, plants and environment. Group students into cooperative groups and assign a water habitat such as: Mangrove Swamp, Pacific Northwest Rainforest, Pondlife, Waterfall with pool and stream, Coral Barrier Reef or Ocean beach with undersea marine life. Students will explore their area read information about each distinct habitat. Student then will research and determine dangers to this habitat and report on it to class.
Learn about sustainability in Etopia Island
After students research their water habitat the cooperative groups can research sustainabilities of the environment in Etopia Island. This world showcases renewable energy, organic living in an authentic environment.
- Have students take the sustainability quiz and elicit background knowledge of subject
- Take a bike ride around the world to see what looks interesting or take the train around to get a quick glimpse of the world.
- Learn about Wind, solar and water energy
- Have students learn about cohousing communities and is this something they see themselves using in the future?
Think it is difficult to teach empathy? Try simulating a
"This clinic building is based on the hallucinations of two specific people with schizophrenia. They were interviewed in detail and gave feedback on early designs for the hallucinations. While the hallucinations are not glamorous, they fairly accurately reproduce these patients' experiences. You should get a sense of just how intrusive the voices of schizophrenia really are." At the end of the experience students take
a survey to reflect on the experiment.
History comes alive in Second Life!
Visit Land of Lincoln and your avatar can put on authentic clothing and listen to the Gettysburg Address. Take a carriage ride and visit Linco
ln's birth home or a Antebellum Southern Plantation. Don't just read about a time and place, experience it!
In Lincoln Land students can visit the lending library and read literature from the time period. Open the books just as you would the real books.
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