Learning in the third 3.0 Place Revisited

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Learning in the third (3.0) Place Revisited

• 2002 2007
• Presented By Paul Hollins
• Deputy Director JISC CETIS

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The Future Home computer of 2004 (As
predicted in 1954)
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Learning in the third Place ?(the five year
journey)

• Presented in 2002 Opening Pandoras Toolbox
  Conference. (Futurelab).
• Digital Games Based Learning (published 2001)
• Games The Pariah in the classroom (gender,
  violence, transferability, fun )
• Post Teaching with Games Teem Report.
• Some Interest (and scepticism) from academia.
• Digital Natives Vs Digital immigrants. (remember?)

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Games in education (why?)

• Games are (often regarded as) engaging,
  motivating and fun.
• Well are they ?
• And..
• Edutainment software has been unsuccessful in
  combining the motivational potential of computer
  games with learning content (Papert, Kirriemuir
  McFarlane, Kafai).

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The Homogenous Gamer ?
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Gee (2003) the 36 Learning principles(embedded
in games)

• Active Critical Learning,Design,Semiotic,Semiotic
  domains,metaleval thinking about semiotic
  domains,pyschsocial moratorium,committed
  Learning, Identity,self knowledge,amplification
  of input,achievment,practice,ongoing
  learning,regime of competence,probing,multiple
  routes,situated meaning,text,intertextual,multimod
  el,material intelligence,intutiive
  knowledge,subset,
• incremental,concentrated sample,basic skills
  (bottom up), explict information just in
  time,discovery,transfer,cultural models about the
  world,cultural models about the semiotic
  domain,distributed,dispersed,affinity group and
  Insider

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COTS (in the Classroom)

• Commercial off the shelf (games).
• Teaching with Games Project 2006. (EA-Futurelab)
• Age of Empires, The Sims (2), Rollercoaster
  tycoon, Neverwinter nights.
• Role out the usual suspects
• Tim Rylands Myst.

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Serious Games..
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Global Conflict (Palestine)

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFcRdAfIBQJs
• Developed in Denmark. (Serious games Interactive)

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The (intended) Learning Cycle.
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To Video Games in the Classroom !
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To Think about COTS.

• Are we (in Education) still sucking all of the
  fun out of games?
• Gender differences Boys Vs Girls and how they
  relate to the experience?
• Are they authentic learning experiences ? A
  reluctance by students to accept the ICT medium
  as a serious tool for learning.
• The Business model ?
• Curriculum/use in classroom/game literacy and
  more

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Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVE), Synthetic
Environment

• Web 3.0 and the vision of the future ?

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Second Life MUVE

• http//secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php
• Subjects
• Science, history, cyber psychology, collaboration
  ,
• English and other languages, maths ,religious
  studies, Economics, Business, cyber anthropology,
  politics, coding..
• The globally networked classroom
• Low cost entry point into MUVE activity.

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Second Life Presence

• Ohio University Second Life Campus (2.33)
• NMC Campus Seriously Engaging (5.37)
• www.secondlife.com

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The Educational Affordance(s) of MUVE
Who is Moon Eggplant ?
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Educational Affordance(s) Identity, Space,
Activity and Tools
The future lecture theatre? virtual
potential Moon Eggplant October 2006
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(More) Barriers to implementation.

• Network security and institutional firewalls.
• Grid attacks , griefers and cyber terrorists.
• Access to inappropriate (adult) content ?
• Limited technical skills amongst educators.
• The current financial model (of some worlds).
• The proprietary nature of some environments.
• Existing technical deficiencies of the
  environments.
• Pre existing models of learning (amongst
  educators).
• Second Life (Those damn Wednesdays!!!!!!!!!!)

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The (MUVE) future ?
Electroencephalography ? (Yes really)
Google Earth MUVE ?
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We have come a long way.

• Games can be good for you.
• Educators want to try them.
• Technologies are firmly on the educational
  agenda.
• Some effective pedagogic practice emerging.
• You are all here..

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Pragmatic suggestions

• Intervention and investment in Serious game
  development. (collaborative, Knowledge lab/Blitz
  example)
• Avoid serious games in silos syndrome)
• Educators, Teachers, tutors, practitioners PDP.
• Development of resource packs for educators.
• Development of robust DGBL and MUVE assessment
  methodologies.
• Broader curriculum development (or at least
  clarification).
• soa Approach to technology and schools
  procurement. (standards based/ web 2.0 )
• Support to practitioners for the application of
  DGBL/ use of MUVE .
• Published case studies , reference models and
  domain maps.
• Development of robust Business model.
• Work collaboratively with proprietary hardware
  owners Sony, Ninetendo and Microsoft (Ok not so
  pragmatic)