Second Life is creating opportunities for a new kind of socialization, so in a sense may help to reduce the fears over heightened disengagement.
Second Life won’t help counter the fears around the changing power relationships between teachers and students, however. If anything, it could have the opposite effect – Second Life is encouraging the ‘rendering strange’ of the norms of teaching, making people think in new ways about their relationship to their own learning.
[H800 Week 18]
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