Analyze Political Campaigns in Virtual Reality

A Second Life in Politics Nanette Bulebosh Video Gaming & Information Literacy Design Assignment December 2007

It is not enough for students to learn how to think critically about information for a research paper. They must learn how to be engaged and why (they should) care. Dane Ward, Illinois State University “ Revisioning Information Literacy for Lifeline Meaning” Journal of Academic Librarianship , July 2006

Campaign 2008 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

I propose … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

It’s Shaffer’s* fault ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],* Shaffer, David Williamson (2006) How Computer Games Help Children Learn .

Think like manipulators ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Who would you like to be? A candidate?

Or a lobbyist or corporate donor?

Part of the point of asking students to take on such a persona is … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

AASL Information Literacy Standard 2 The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.

The student who is information literate … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Internal Grammar (content) AASL’s Standard 2 Indicators might help ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How might a student demonstrate an understanding of the difference between a fact and an opinion or a point of view? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

External Grammar (social practices) ,[object Object],In other words, how would an information literate “insider” behave?

Our political campaign project offers ample opportunities … ,[object Object]

Second Life Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe.

I’d direct my students to Teen Second Life Teen Second Life is an international gathering place for teens 13-17 to make friends and to play, learn and create … It’s more than a videogame and much more than an Internet chat program – it’s a boundless world of surprise and adventure that encourages teens to work together and use their imaginations.

Within Teen Second Life … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

These social interactions are important ,[object Object],[object Object],Moreover, knowledge … is the result of activities between members of a group and its is based on their on-going interactions. In other words, what we, individually, know is uncovered through the process of interacting with the worlds around us, and the others we find in it. - Newell’s Nov. 21 slides again

In Second Life students can explore existing virtual spaces All or most of the candidates are probably represented

And eventually they can create their own

Gee’s 36 Learning Principles I don’t’ have time to cover all of them here, but my project, A Second Life in Politics , seems to address a good share of them.

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