Immersive Learning: it’s game on!

Just came across this video with QA and World of Warcraft in the same video post! Wow, isn’t that a cool moment for a designer…my work posted in the same video with Warcraft. Not that I have any grandiose visions that this is a meaningful comparison, but big dreams Watch Video.This video provides a nice overview about the value of multiuser virtual worlds for learning, and it presents it in a nice format. It is also quite flattering of QA

On a related note, here is a video produced by kids to state what they want. See the No Future Left Behind Video.
Too many disenfranchised students are being left behind in large-scale comparison studies that focus on moving the mean and that treat standardized test scores as the most important outcome goal. We need curriculum that repositions

• the role of learners (from consumers of someone else’s content to change agents who see and care about school content),
• legitimizes content to be learned (from facts to be memorized to conceptual tools that help transform personally interesting dilemmas), and
• provides contexts in which students have impact (from situations only relevant to adult mathematicians, scientists, etc. to compelling storylines whose outcomes are in the hands and minds of the learner).

We need a curriculum that creates an invitation such that ALL children can come to value academic content and see themselves as people who use it in legitimate ways.