Booralie Open Sim Virtual Island for High School Learning

A tour of our school Open Sim island. The island is available 24/7 and is slowly being built by its student population.
To me, this space exemplifies 'community of practice' learning processes. Behaviour is self-regulated. Learning is organic, spontaneous and authentic.
In the video:
0 min - I walk through the initial forest, through the 'sandpit' where anyone can build,
1 min - to Booralie Metropolis, where teams of students claim land and put up buildings.
4:30 - I show the process by which objects in the world can be programmed.
5:30 Next, I fly around the entire island showing some class projects, including quiz chairs linked to Moodle using SLOODLE.
7:30 Finally, I conclude with some comments about the nature of learning and power of 'community of practice' learning.
I think schooling as we know it needs to go extinct as soon as possible. Schooling has toxic elements that breed passivity and alienation in a good proportion of the students... students who will otherwise go on to have highly successful lives. A 'learning village' model has been articulated and is long overdue.
@steve_collis
www.happysteve.com

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Education

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• Open Sim
• Booralie Island
• community of practice
• student
• learning
• virtual world
• scil
• nbcs3D
• Reaction Grid
• coding
• programming
• creativity
• Second Life
• SLOODLE
• MOODLE
• quiz chair