week 7 assignment 2 Second life game in ELA learning and teaching

Second life game creates an environment that inspires students learning.  The game encourages on students communication skill meanwhile the game gives students opportunities to practice on their literacy skills. Students can join anyone's group and find the group with their interest and explore their interests. Learners can join the groups by search their interest, it practices on students independent work and research skills. Students develop those skills by reading the instructions on the website, searching their interest and communicate with friends on the internet to practice on their communication skills and writing skills. The technology integrates on students learning use multimodal way to increase the students quality of learning by cultivating students interest and students needs. Students learn the knowledge and practice on literacy skills in many ways such as picture, image, communication etc. Students decode and comprehend alphabetic print in conjunction when they play the game on the website and also learn from their peers.   Second life game gives users opportunities to access the objects or phenomena that is impossible to observe or examine in real life.  Students can learn and practice knowledge by their interest. Students also can start an audio chat to practice their speaking when they play the game, especially for ELA learner, it is a good way to practice their speaking skills. The second-life create an environment that students can naturally learn and practice on literacy.

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  1. Linruo,
    I agree SL encourages communication between students as well as providing opportunities for students to build literacy skills.

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  2. You are absolutely right the features and graphics on the game are incredible with that real-world experience. There are several benefits and pros but we as educators must also consider the cons and make our students aware of their Netiquette!

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  3. I agree with the fun features and amazing graphics online for students to sense different style of learning.

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  4. I also agree with the different graphic features we haver learned. This is telling us that students that students can leasrn in many different ways. This tuype of learnng are motivating and engaging.

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