It’s our generation that calls it a virtual world and builds some mystique about it.”
Posted on October 28, 2007
Filed under Conversations, Reflections
“It’s people of a certain age that talk about ‘going online’. Kids just say ‘I’m going to Habbo’.”
“The social footprint of kids is diminishing year on year,” he said, “they are allowed less distance from the front gate all the time.”
These are quotes from a recent BBC article about virtual worlds, children and values.
The second is telling. In my Second Life, which is becoming more life like, I’m very aware that we’re sitting in front of computers. We’re not out at a community center, a park, a cafe or a concert. Our social footprints are fading away as well and for a variety of reasons. I became interested in distance education primarily because I saw its potential for making education more accessible. It’s for people who are housebound or for whom a MWFR, Psych 101 course with 500 freshman is a barrier to starting or finishing a college degree.
Our lives are extended not diminished by available technologies.
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