Virtual Outworlding: July 2020

Friday, July 31, 2020

2020 #VWEDU: How would you teach interpersonal skills online? Social VR, DTA, videos, behavior modelling, critical incidents technique.

How would you teach interpersonal skills online?
Social VR, DTA, videos, behavior modelling,
critical incident technique.

A brief description of how one can teach interpersonal skills online with the aid of existing tools.

Outside the box

Online does not mean alone.
Online is not limited to reading a web page.
Online includes social VR and videos.
Alone does not exclude a digital teaching assistant (DTA) driven by AI.
Explicit learning: Learning activities directed towards explicit learning objectives.

Teaching interpersonal skills

Read an ebook about interpersonal skills?
Listen to lectures about interpersonal skills?
Take a multiple-choice test about interpersonal skills?
Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
Scholarly articles for teaching interpersonal skills
Behavior modelling (psychology) Wikipedia
Critical Incident Technique (Wikipedia)
Social learning theory
Going to camp on the browser

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: Narrative-based learning and the use of digital places as teacher and text With the DTA as mentor

Narrative-based learning and
the advantage of digital places.
With the DTA as mentor.

Brief illustration of how to to create an instructional narrative.

The castle of darkening light

The castle of darkening light

There is always a story

Narrative-based learning

Imaginary worlds are virtual worlds.

Joseph Campbell's hero journey. The journey of life.

Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?

Narratives share imaginary worlds.

Digital worlds offer another sharing option.

The hero journey is about a mythical quest in an imaginary world.

A digital world can let students play the hero role in an imaginary world.

Linden Lab acquired by investors, Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: WW: ART: 3DWebWorldz hosts a digital art museum in your browser. Monet, Demuth, Fortier.

3DWebWorldz hosts a digital art museum
in your browser.
Monet, Demuth, Fortier.

An art gallery in your laptop. No travel, no cost, no virus. Art as a social experience.

A web page you walk into

Calling All Art History Teachers And Art History Lovers
Art history
Art museum online
2,500 Museums You Can Now Visit Virtually
Art galleries online (search)
An online art colony

Who would be interested?

Art teachers
Art history teachers
Art history fans
Art students
Art collectors
Art galleries
Artists
Artists Guild of America
Artist guild (search)

A web-world for a field trip

A flat web page is fine if you go by yourself.
A field trip presents art as a social experience.
The teacher or a docent adds items of interest.
The students talk with each other to compare viewpoints.
Assignments may call for students to work together.
Social learning Is a recognized mode of learning.

Linden Lab acquired by investors, Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: Think like a coder. Think like a planner. Think like digital teaching assistant (DTA). Computational thinking is really concrete planning.

Think like a coder. Think like a planner.
Think like digital teaching assistant (DTA).
Computational thinking is really concrete planning.

Coding is really concrete planning. It has two advantages: It is a marketable skill and it can be taught mostly by computer. Here is a video designed to introduce the ideas of programming to children. It also illustrates how the DTA can be used in teaching beginners.

Watch on YouTube
Starring Hedge as the Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
Think like a coder series
Computational thinking is really concrete planning.
So teaching computational thinking also teaches planning.
Learning to think like a coder calls for problem-solving.
So courses in coding are also teaching problem-solving.

The role of the DTA

In this episode, the DTA plays the role of the mentor (think Yoda) .
Because this episode is a play, the DTA actions can be planned in advance.
In this episode, the student merely sees a problem being solved.
Children learn by imitation, so this can be a learning experience.
But further learning requires active use of what has been learned.
For active learning the DTA would present problems and coach the student to figure out solutions.
Coding mistakes can be caught by the computer, so practice costs nothing.
And the computer can give immediate feedback.

The narrative as instructional strategy

The narrative starts by presenting the problem in human terms.
Traditional instruction starts with an assignment to learn about iterative loops.
The narrative presents a problem and shows how an iterative loop solves it.
The narrative presents learning as problem-solving.

Linden Lab acquired by investors, Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: WW: A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater. The rover, Perseverance

A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater.
The rover, Perseverance

By Dr, William Schmachtenberg. Franklin County HIgh School (Virginia). For his Earth Science class. And for other science classes in Virginia schools. We watch the 2020 Rover go through its startup paces.

Watch on YouTube

Under development on:

3DWebWorldz
No need to register--enter as a guest
The Mars Learning Room is open to the public

Jezero Crater - Learning Room

Learn about the geology of Mars and the Mars 2020 Mission -

then step through the airlock and collect samples in search of ancient life!

Region Owner: William Schmachtenberg

Jezero Crater (Wikipedia)

Perseverance

3D objects located on this region:

Jezero_learn - Evie_Marie

Nasa Rover - Curiosity - https://sketchfab.com/nebulousflynn

Linden Lab acquired by investors, Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 #VWEDU: Can schools be preparing students for future work, if working online is not part of the curriculum?

Can schools be preparing students for future work,
if working online is not part of the curriculum?

The old way of teaching does not work any more. It never did work very well for a lot of students. Not even for students who figured out how to game it and so made good grades. Sure we stored a lot of knowledge, but we never learned how to use most of it. Because it was only good for passing tests and that is not what adults need to do.

Not the workplace

of the future

Is it the future learning place?

We need a global reskilling revolution – here's why

Almost one-third of all jobs, are likely to be transformed by technology in the next decade.

Most wanted skills of the future and the online courses to master them

Hi tech skills, interpersonal skills: sales, care, education.

Reskilling

Why is digital literacy important in the workplace?

Lifetime Learning Credit
Lifelong learning
Learning to learn

The problems

How can we teach them future skills when we don't know what skills will be needed?
How can the teachers teach skills the teachers don't have.
Is a lecture on interpersonal skills adequate to teach interpersonal skills?
Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
Teach them how to learn new skills.

Linden Lab acquired by investors, Opensim Fest 2020 coming in August

2020 PROMO: Find events in Kitely: use the Kitely calendar. Promoters in Kitely: take note.

Find events in Kitely:
use the Kitely calendar.
Promoters in Kitely: take note.

With Kitely adding major improvements to host high volume events, it is time to review available support for promoting events in Kitely (and Kitely Organizations services.) Here I review Kitely calendar support.

Kitely Events Calendar

Showing events after 5/15. Look for earlier events

Friday, May 15