4 Technology in College: Second Life

In my learning through technology class we are working with the virtual world known as Second Life. It is more or less a virtual world where you create your own character ad live as that person. You can explore, get a job, buy land, and do basically anything that you could do in real life. It could also be used as way to educate. A teacher could set up a virtual classroom where students from all around the world could meet. I personally think it is a great way to educate. You can "meet" people and interact with them safely. Of course as with anything else a student would have to be careful about sharing information, but that is just common sense. I myself have not done a lot with second life, but I plan on getting more into it as the class progresses. Some people argue that second life is not a good educational tool because of the innapropriate content that it contains. However I beleive that if a portion of the world was regulated and used specifically for schools, it would not be a problem. After all, such things occur in the real world and teenagers learn to deal with them.