VWPBE Teen Tour - Virtual Paintball

Will we use virtual worlds to recreate education as we know it? Will educators determine what students should "know" and then design 3D lessons for them to "experience" followed by assigned "reflect upon they have learned"? Or, will we be brave enough to turn these unique spaces over to our students and let them build their own learning? ToMorrow Island, a private virtual sim where 8th graders stretch their creativity by constructing what they imagine. During the 2011 VWPBE Conference, ToMorrow Island was opened for educators to play paintball with students and experience first hand the game they designed and built independently. They heard why the students think constructing a virtual paintball field is appropriate middle school curriculum.

Read more: http://tomorrowisland.wikispaces.com/Paintball

Category:

Education

Tags:

• vwbpe
• knowclue
• machinima
• ToMorrow Island
• Teen Second Life
• education

[iFRiDDER]

this gives me ideas for minecraft

[joshfoley29]

i wanna play how can i play