Week 7 Assignment #2 Second Life

Second Life

After talking to my cooperating teacher, I learned that she had never heard about Second Life (SL) but was excited to look at new ways to incorporate technology into her language instruction. We brainstormed ways in which she can incorporate SL into her lesson plan to add depth/ quality and came up with a few:

• We can create a virtual classroom or take virtual field trips that will promote more social interaction and help educators save time by making lessons relevant.
• Second Life can be used to explore a specific topic that the class will be studying or has already studied, students can visit and explore interesting topics in a more concrete manner rather than abstract which will enhance their learning experience.
• Since SL supports the playback of audio and video files, has text, images students can create their own scenarios or teacher can flip the classroom which will add enthusiasm and motivate learning.