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Dr. John Bransford talks on using virtual environments for education on Oct 2

Posted on September 28, 2006 by

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Folks in the Second Life education list tell me this event is a super-big deal. Dr John Bransford, education psychology specialist affiliated with the National Science Foundation will be speaking on "Virtual Environments as ways to Reorganize
Thinking about Research and Education
"
on October 2 in Second Life. Here’s the complete description from the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments
(LIFE) Center
blog:

Dr. John Bransford, prominent education psychology researcher and editor of the book How
People Learn, will be giving his first presentation in the popular virtual world
of Second Life. Dr. Bransford is the director of The Learning in Informal and
Formal Environments (LIFE) Center, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science
of Learning Center. He will present his latest thoughts on different ways that
virtual environment can help people learn and possibly reorganize our
educational system.

The talk will take place in Second Life at Palladium/120/120 on Monday,
October 2 from noon to 1:30pm Pacific Time. Please contact Drue Gawel at
djgawel@u.washington.edu for more info. Direct teleport here.

1 thought on “Dr. John Bransford talks on using virtual environments for education on Oct 2”

  1. Celebrity says:
    May 6, 2008 at 1:33 pm

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