Virtual Worlds: Learning and Teaching in a Digital Age

I am – as we say – gobsmacked. A few weeks ago our island in Second Life was a barren piece of virtual soil and sea. I am right this moment walking around the island with my avatar (deliberately walking, not flying) and all before my eyes are the most amazing and creative objects. There is colour, there is movement, there are buildings with purpose and objects that interact. There is green and blue, red and yellow, and all of it has meaning and shape and function.

As somebody who doesn’t have a clue how to script nor programme (I am an educationalist, not a computing scientist ) this is amazing and I want to call out “look at this! Look at what our students have created. In groups, individually, with a lot of effort, thought, and creativity.” Just look at it and then wonder what the students have learned.

I think the island itself answers the question, it doesn’t need us to do so.