History in OpenSim: Conquest and Tragedy
In 2012 Spiff received a grant to create a History Virtual World using Opensim. For the next 10 years, he worked with a team of amazing educators to create the Islands of Enlightenment. These islands were dedicated to helping students in grades 6-12 learn through a virtual environment.
The results were amazing. Student engagement and improvement in learning outcomes progressed as anticipated. However, keeping the energy and momentum on a large scale started to wane. Tight tech budgets, the compression of the curriculum, wide scale purchasing of lower powered tablet devices, siphoned off high tech learning adventures.
So where do we go from here? This session will explore the conquests and tragedies, of learning in a virtual world in K12 spaces.
Speaker
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Andrew Wheelock / Spiff WhitfieldCurrently Technology Learning Specialist for a small school in NY state. Past work as a teacher and technology integrator have given me 30 years of high tech integration experiences with students and adults.
Https://www.virtualpioneers.org
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