Presentation that was given at the ESRC: Social learning in Virtual worlds seminar at City University, London on 14th March 2008.

6. taxonomy of Second Life practices

7. Mapping control of the environment against pedagogy disorientating stressful, mechanical area of good practice cognitive overload

8. is this the vision we have for education in virtual worlds? why do we strive for poor replications of RL/RW teaching settings?

9. forces us to question context social capital ethics dialogue identity assessment Informal learning collaboration creativity decentreing new digital literacies

10. rethinking teaching approaches for virtual worlds

11. augmentation (life 2.0) or immersion (alternative worlds)

12. where do our bodies go when we are immersed? the disappearing computer

13. Teaching approaches teaching approach immersion augmentation tactical, narrative, strategic culture, context, anonymity, play platform - culture? constraint, control, authenticity platform - tools? extension, flow*, bridges *Csíkszentmihályi (1990)

14. how do we break the monotony of augmentationlist approaches?

15. radical pedagogy as a critical pedagogy for socio-political action, critical consciousness (Freire, Giroux) radical pedagogy as a transformative process, participation in practice (Ascott) radical pedagogy as a discursive space for addressing education and change

17. Open architecture project http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiowikitecture/sets/72157604038184909/

18. art and design approaches dialogical transformative participation in practice perspectivalism revisability intuition creativity, inventiveness and innovation indeterminacy and improvisation instability and uncertainty interrogative disposition self-construction, self-realisation (Danvers, 2003)

20. Final slide Dr Steven Warburton School of Law King's College London Email: steven.warburton@kcl.ac.uk Prism(lab) at http://www.prismlab.org Liquid Learning at http://www.liquidlearning.org Second Life: StevenW Bohm