Week 6

On the class for week 6, our topic is '21st Century Teaching'. Matched with the fellow topic, we 'played' Second Life which is a virtual life for education world. I was quite impressed on how education nowadays can be achieved in varity of ways , with a great help of technology. Second life as for me is a really interesting method to use in order to atttract students to study, read notes, explore more knowledge as well as discussing with other students . At the same time when they can achieve amazing informations, they also can have fun , with the beautifu graphics of Second Life where each students can create an account and show their personalties by the appearance of them virtually potrayed.

After utilizing the great world of Second Life, now that we get some ideas on the future education, we discussed on how far Second Life can actually been improved to be a huge benefit on education world. The class came out with consensus that history can be learnt practically when Second Life can be reannact and used to give more impact on students when the whole surrouding is being reenact to the current history topic. For example, when a history class is learning about egypt, Seconf Life can be modified to arabian settings as well as all the people there wearing the arabian style clothes. Personally, I think that would be a great idea especially for small children where their imagination are highly powerful and can give them huge advantage. Other than history, language can also been taught more interesting using second Life by labeling the things in surrounding in different languages. It is believed that graphics can help people memorize better. 

Similar to that, biology also can be learn by for instant, labeling the fish. Geography can also been greatly and effectively taught.  In brief, I think this is a great invention and a great modern educational tool to use by educators.