Second Life Skills 2

Very young children do not seem to worry about top or bottom of a page in a picturebook. They 'read' upside down if necessary. They start copying our way of doing when they start to recognise the meaning of text. Teens in Second Life can listen to somebody while floating in the air, focus on building and chat to peers. All at the same time. There seems to be no need to confine them to a room for learning SL skills.

Some reflections.........

My dashboard told me that I have published a hundred of these items today. I started a month ago, have a growing number of readers (over 350, from all over the world and 1 in 2 comes back and reads more than 2 pages) and get nice compliments by mail and in-world. So far, so good.
What is my result after this effort? I set out to investigate the added value of SL for learning, but must admit that I have not yet delivered outstanding examples of best practice in great numbers. Oh, there was this young teacher on the basics of photography, there is this other woman building an agricultural college and I have seen some smart solutions for facilitating teaching, but after a month of SL- estrial travel I have not seen examples of learning by construction: places where students build their own learning environment and develop their skills by doing so, in my opinion SL's unique selling point for learning and education. But it is 'to early to call', I must be more patient as one day I shall, no doubt, stumble upon such initiative.