Using virtual worlds and video games to teach the lessons of reality: Scientific American Blog

 

COOL!!  Finally science is seeing the possibilities of this new aspect of technology, 3-D virtual reality.  If you my readers do keep up with what I post on my blogs, I do write a good deal about SecondLife.  The future is already here with SecondLife.  Schools are using it.  Business are inworld.  In all aspect of what one may see in real life, it is being done in SecondLife.

In this new generation, where tons of students are into games, the old way of teaching simply does not work.  Most of the way school system taught was for the industrial age format.  Employers wants the students to be able think for themselves and work as a team.  They do not want a mindless body working for them that only follows orders.  They need them partake in all aspects of the business.  Games like World of Warcraft (WOW), learns these basic skills.

 

 

Games are not only fun, but the games of the future are designed to allow a group of people to work together as a team.  When I was in high school, we did not learn these things.  Team playing in the classroom was hardly mentioned or encouraged.  Today team playing is a vital aspect of a business.  Anyone can work in a factory.  In business today, it takes more then a proper education and skills needed to do the job.  So is SecondLife the key to learning these new things?

As I have stated, people that plays these videos games like WOW are learning to work together, and they could be from different parts of the world.  No time is history has people throughout the world every come together then by the Internet.  From first time the Internet has been introduced to a mass of people, things have popped up for the better in all aspects of life.  This does not mean that things can progress without technology.  I am simply stating what has blossom due to it.

The wonders of Second Life - on a special episode of SLosmos

 

War of Warcraft intro

 

Soldiers Get Virtual Reality Therapy for Burn Pain

 

 

eOffice Virtual Reality Tour in Second Life

 

 

I could have put endless amount of videos on this posting.  The ones that I have now truly do not do justice on all that is out there with 3-D virtual reality and all that technology has done for every human being on planet Earth.  As I have said the future is already here with SecondLife.  Now we all have to wait for what others will create inworld of SecondLife.  There are about 1070 video of the time of this blog posting on "education in second life."  There are things that can be taught in the classroom that can be done in SecondLife that might not be done in real life.  A good example would be Virtual nursing in SecondLife.  It is one of the 1070 videos listed on YouTube.  Science another great opportunity in learning while in SecondLife. 

Remember that I talked about the important of team playing?  In SecondLife, one can be trained to perfect that concept, and be trained on many things while in SecondLife.  Here is a real life video on how important training can be within SecondLife.  Make sure you watch all four parts.  Using SecondLife for training is very effective and it cost a lot less then having the training session done in real life.  In some cases, it might not be as effective in real life.  Today the USA military does more simulations in their training then ever before.

No matter what part of life one may look at, there is a very strong possibility that 3-D virtual reality can be used.  The only limit to man's endeavors are the imagination of the one's behind the creation.  Linden Labs does not create these things for people and industries.  All creations inworld of SecondLife is created by the users.  That is what has made SecondLife so powerful these five years.  What will be happening in the future is in the hands of all that use SecondLife.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Using virtual worlds and video games to teach the lessons of reality: Scientific American Blog