May 7, 2008
Jim Bower: Building a Virtual Community of Learners
The creator of Whyville concludes our series on the affordances of virtual worlds with discussion of why he believes users come back to the community and stay.
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May 9, 2008
Connie Yowell: Logging into the Playground
New research on parental views of the role of digital media in kids’ lives will be presented today at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s First Annual Symposium “Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children’s Learning.”
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May 5, 2008
Yasmin Kafai: The Learning Affordances of Pimples in Virtual Worlds
An associate professor of education from UCLA shares learnings from her study of the annual virtual public health epidemic in Whyville.net, “Whypox.” This continues our series on the affordances of virtual worlds and 21st century learning environments.
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May 1, 2008
Constance Steinkuehler: Digital Montessori for Big Kids: An assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin responds to Connie’s post on the “affordances” of virtual worlds. She describes her work studying adolescent boys in an after school online gaming club.…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected
April 30, 2008
Doug Thomas: Under the Surface of Virtual Worlds: Responding to the Connie’s post on virtual world “affordances,” the director of the Institute for Network Culture offers a few warnings and suggestions for researchers.
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April 29, 2008
The Affordances of Virtual Worlds and 21st Century Learning Environments: Connie Yowell asks: What can we learn from young people about why they find virtual worlds so appealing?
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected
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April 24, 2008
Barry Joseph: Comparing Apples and Oranges in Virtual Worlds: Global Kids reflects on lessons learned from a massively multiworld simulcast of Kofi Annan’s receipt of the MacArthur Award for International Justice.
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected
April 23, 2008
Dilan Mahendran: Expression, Music & Meaning in the Digital Age: In conjunction with our upcoming forum on New Media in the Lives of Everyday Youth at Stanford this evening, a researcher from the University of California…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected
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