With the "Padlet" website we had to post questions or key ideas of the article we read. Later, we had to discuss our article with our peers and explain it to them, answering their questions and viceversa.
Gathering the information with the peers in the classroom and asking each others questions really helped to clarify the ideas and end up getting a really good picture frame of the concept VWs.
Honestly, I think nothing clarifies ideas better than explaining them to others. Moreover, an impressive collection of studies has shown that participation in well-functioning cooperative groups leads students to feel more positive about themselves, about each other, and about the subject they're studying. Students also learn more effectively on a variety of measures when they can learn with each other instead of against each other or apart from each other.
These are the steps followed during that lesson:
I can't wait to use Virtual World Enviroments once I start my english practicum because I believe it demonstrates the way in which the use of a VW enviroment can help create a complex interdependency between the young learners and various new technologies in long-term and shared knowledge-building activities. It has the potential to enrich the educational process in a number of important ways that are not possible in a traditional classroom.
