weakness
know-it-alls
practice affect

recognizing one’s weakness allows one to improve
humility makes one teachable

it doesn’t matter how many times you’re knocked down, it only matters how many times you get up
get up until it becomes automatic

how do virtual world environments impact learning?

compared to a traditional physical classroom?

speculate:
engaging (this question may not be of interest [it may also be too subjective])
convenient
satisfying

identify legitimate teaching/learning applications for virtual worlds

What is a virtual world
immerssive, 3d, avatar, not bound by physics

f2f,

conventional
classical

good luck defining a typical physical classroom

focus on comparing specific teaching/learning activities

what person to person scenarios ( many to one, many to many, one to one, one to many)?

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if you can travel… is this an argument about efficiency?

improve low-achieving students

art classroom
constraint: blended

campbell and stanley threats to validity
contamination

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media comparison study? how do you prevent this from becoming a media comaprison study?

(is orality vs literacy a media comparsion study?)
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research on design of learning environments
liberty

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affordances of environments

if you itemize and categorize affordances of SL you might speculate new learning activities

how can we leverage and maximize new or different affordances of the virtual world?

beloit college

what assumptions about “millennial learners”

we need to consider the assumptions we make in order to achieve X