James Paul Gee on GK Island in Second Life: Part 11 of 15

In May of 2007, an avatar contest was held on Global Kids island in Teen Second Life. James Paul Gee, the noted professor, came to Global Kids to try on the various avatars- such as a chicken, a cyberninja and a dragon -- while reflecting on a variety of issues related to games, learning, avatars and online identity.

This segment is called:

On the Flattening World
"Thomas Friedman's book argues that in the future, unless American schools do a lot better job of getting people to be creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial, we will have very big economic problems..."

For more on the event, go to:
http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/05/sl_james_paul_gee_arrives_on_g_.html

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