Today we had a woman come in to teach us of all the interesting and applicable things we can do with second life in education. I'm gonna have to take a pass on it though and say there's roughly nothing you can do with second life in education.
If you really do need me to elaborate, I'm not sure what to tell you. It was a joke, a waste of time, a sham, I wanted my money back.
On the second half, however, we did learn a bit about copyright laws in education. Pretty much "if you didn't make it, you better not use more than 5 minutes of it." Which seems fair superficially. But when you realize that certain things would be valuable to our society as a whole if they were free in education it starts to break down.
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I'm right there with you Matt on the Second Life thing. If the potential for fruitful classroom application is there, she didn't do a very good job making it seem authentically possible.
ReplyDeleteI thought the copyright thing was the better portion of class as well, though I found much of it kind of depressing/frustrating. The last statement of your post is spot on.