2019 EDU: Spanish Language Learning Island. Situated learning, immersive learning

Spanish Language Learning Island 
Situated learning, immersive learning 

The best place to learn a language is where you need to use it.  There even the little kids can speak it.

 You need to know 

the Spanish names

• Situated learning.
• The vocabulary you need most urgently is for the place you are now.
• Situated learning 
• Immersive learning
• Scholarly articles for language learning in a MUVE
• On the web: Spanish Language Learning Island
• Immersive language learning (Wikipedia)
• Scholarly articles for immersive language learning
• Immersive language learning (Google search)
• Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)

Go there 

• HG address: 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Spanish Language Learning Island
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
• Hop: In Kitely put the hop in the address (top) bar of Firestorm, press enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Spanish Language Learning Island/191/108/23

• #VWEDU update 6/27/2019 Libraries for education; Facebook with cryptocurrency

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Situations for situated learning

 You arrive here 

• You are immediately immersed in Spanish

Immersive learning 

• If you want to eat around here, you need to know a little Spanish.

You can order what you want

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• If you know Spanish.

 No ropes here

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 This slideshow tells a story

• But only if you can read Spanish.

Chester makes trouble

• Alex should have known better.

Language learning in virtual worlds

• Web-world use case: Conversational spoken English! Or any other language
• Putting language back into the language arts
• Escape to a New Way to Learn Spanish, invited post by James T. Abraham, Ph.D.
• EduNation: Virtual Worlds for language education
• Language learning in an immersive world. Maybe this is the way to do it.
• Language learning in the new century: Reports: a collection of efforts
• English as a second Language. Virtlantis and the holodeck
• The CAMELOT-GUINEVERE project: Learning language in virtual worlds.
• English as a second Language: ESOL, EFLTreasure hunt. The game of learning!!
• Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free.
• Language. Synergy in Second Life. UWA
• Hypergrid International Expo (HIE) : Multi-language: Language classes note
• How language shapes the way we think
• Edutopia 1 and 2: Places for practicing English as a second language
• At Spanish Language Learning at Escape--El Dia de Los Muertos. Nov. 2 at 5 PM Pacific.
• Language learning in virtual reality. Learn It Town sim: ESL (VWMOOC)

Challenge based learning

• Project-based education could produce useful results for learner and society
• Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not.
• Educator's challenge: Provide planning template(s) for project-based learning
• Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?
• Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
• Massacre at Wounded Knee, example of project-based learning in virtual worlds
• Social games for social VR: A virtual match game
• Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
• We are wired to innovate. Do schools teach creativity?
• Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
• CoSpaces: Virtual worlds for grade school. Maker movement again
• The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds
• Problems and the seven gates to solving them. Like a game. Coincidence? Or something else?
• Cyber Challenge: by John Low, Chief Creative Officer, Carney
• VWBPE immersive events, The Queen’s Heroes in the Five Kingdoms #vwbpe19chat
• Konk Combat Game Builder, with NPC interactions. The Metaverse Tour investigates

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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