RezEd Podcast Episode 21: Jackie Marsh talks about her research on British youth use of virtual worlds
[SUMMARY—The hub for learning and virtual worlds podcast series.]
(WORLD) The twenty first RezEd podcast, produced by MediaSnackers with Global Kids.
Jackie Marsh, Professor of Education at Sheffield University, UK, discussing here her "Out of school play in online virtual worlds and the implications for literacy learning" paper centered around children aged 5to 11 (she also authors the Digital Beginnings blog).
0.00—0.24 intro
0.25—4.19 RezEd news Rik at Global Kids (any news or events can be
submitted here)
- The first RezEd virtual conference was held on November 17, 2008 in the virtual world of Second Life. The entire event was recorded and if you want to listen to it, you can check the blog of rezed.org and you can listen to that.
- Mimi Ito and the Digital Youth Research Group released a long awaited ethic graphic report on kid’s informal learning in digital media on November 20, 2008.
- The New Media Consortium published results of the survey they conducted in 2008 on educational uses of Second Life, where they talked to 358 individuals who are involved in different educational projects. You can download the 2008 survey results at nmc.org/news/nmc/2008/sl/survey.edu or at rezed.org for the link.
4.28—4.51 background to Jackies focus
4.52—5.55 overview of the research
5.56—7.09 research findings
7.10—9.21 reading / writing and other practises
9.22—12.39 results from observation
12.40—14.49 opportunities for education
14.50—18.44 future
18.45—18.53 thanks
18.54—20.45 Rik detailing the upcoming events for the RezEd community (any news or events can be submitted here)
- The Mardi Gras Conference on virtual worlds, hosted by the Center for Computation & Technology at LSU in cooperation with the LSU Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research Initiative on February 19 - 21, 2009.
- The Taxonomy of Virtual Worlds Educational Workshop is happening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania on March 12 - 13, 2009.
To read the abridged version of the transcription, click here.
Subscribe directly through iTunes by clicking on this icon
(download iTunes for free here).  Not using iTunes? Then
just copy / paste this
feed and drop it into your aggregating software.
Comment
-
Comment by Kae on December 5, 2008 at 1:31pm -
I attended Jakie's inworld presentation at Infolit iSchool last month. I really think Jackie's research should be quoted or shown to higher education adminstrators who have doubts about how our future students learn. At the talk, I think I remember her saying that it would be 6 years for us to start having Club Penguin alumni.
Unrelated to the above comment, Jackie's research on rough and tumble play I see in MMORPGs, but this kind of even friendly contact seems to be missing in SL. Is it because we are all acting like adults? I was discussing with a student who was going into SL for the first time, but is a MMORPG gamers. I told him that SL is more polite that the game he normally plays. Does anyone else find SL much more polite that the RPG they play?
© 2012 Created by Global Kids.
You need to be a member of RezEd to add comments!
Join RezEd