Guest Column: Why Steve Jobs would have loved digital learning | WiredAcademic

n the wake of Steve Jobs’ passing, many wrote about the statements he made throughout his adult life about how to improve the U.S. education system. Some noted that for much of Jobs’s life, he had, ironically perhaps, been skeptical of the positive impact technology could make on education.

But what has received less attention is how digital learning could have improved Jobs’s own educational experience.

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Blog | Exploring the virtual classroom | Feminist pedagogy in the metaverse

Once More Down the Rabbit Hole

June 22, 2012

Hamlet Au has done an excellent writeup of Cloud Party. It’s a WebGL-based virtual world, which means that any browser that can handle WebGL* can get you there, just by using a link (pretty well the majority of browsers). Although there’s no viewer to download, to fully experience the programme you must have a Facebook account. It’s deployed on Amazon servers, which means it will be fast and reliable, and the concurrency rate is 25 avatars to an area. I haven’t been able to figure out whether unused areas are automatically shut down, as in Kitely. If they are, that will increase performance and lower pricing. Participants can use the system tools to build, and they can also import mesh objects, which means that SL content developers will have a market for their goods in both Second Life and Cloud Party. The most eye-opening aspect of Cloud Party isn’t available yet: they say it will soon be able to run on phones and tablets (it’s already set up in on the entry page). This is something Second Life people have been demanding for years.

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WEEKLY EVENT on Sunday June 24, 2012 at 8AM SLT (US Pacific) HUMANE EDUCATION DRUM CIRCLE

WEEKLY EVENT on Sunday June 24, 2012 at 8AM SLT (US Pacific)
HUMANE EDUCATION DRUM CIRCLE

MEETS FEED A SMILE — WITH POETRY!

Click SLURL to Teleport: http://slurl.com//secondlife/Alison/197/205/22

In Humane Education, the world is our classroom: sustainability, human rights, and respect for all beings are topics, that we can integrate into any K-12 or higher education subject, such as STEM, Civics, Language Arts, etc. An excellent introduction to Humane Education is a famous speech by Zoe Weil at TEDx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HEV96dIuY And I have posted extensive Humane Education resources at: http://carlicann.wordpress.com/ i.e. links to repositories with 1000s of online lesson plans.

This week’s Poetic Drum Circle is dedicated to Feed a Smile. Feed a Smile is an exemplary Second Life charity campaign. Hosting monthly Poetic Drum Circles… and daily live music events with the finest musicians in the Virtual Worlds. Each L$100 donation feeds a meal to a Kenyan School Child. To date: 63,667 meals have been donated by Second Life Citizens. This is an amazingly successful EDUCATIONAL charity that is having significant Real World impact. Join us!

Visit Feed a Smile’s website for more info: http://feed-a-smile.blogspot.com/