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  1. Jul 2023
    1. Adolescents need to learn how to integrate knowledge from multiple sources, including music, video,online databases, and other media. They need to think critically about information that can be foundnearly instantaneously through out the world.

      I feel like this is the new challenge that adolescents need to face nowadays. We are crowded with tons of news from the world, and adolescents, just tend to believe those seemingly authentic information. But in the process of handling different information, they are also absorbing diverse cultures.

    2. In “Education Unleashed,” Cory Ondrejka uses the history of virtual worlds as a context forbuilding an argument around the role new technology is playing in defining when, where,and how kids learn. Chief Technology Officer for Linden Lab (the creators of Second Life),Ondrejka is an unapologetic advocate for the use of virtual worlds as a building block of thefuture of learning. Connecting the cost of learning to innovation and knowledge creation,he suggests that it is the lower cost of learning in virtual worlds that is transformative. “Forthe first time, geography is not the primary determining factor in who can learn together orwho can teach” (p. 243)

      I always watched videos where people introduce their study methods that the mechanism similar to the game, intend to let people enjoy studying like enjoying playing the game. So they encourage to set small task to finish the studying step by step. But we still lack of motivation to start the first step. Ondrejka said, learning through the game is the easiest way and has a comparatively lower cost. When I was in high school, I always won the highest score in classical Chinese only because I used to read lots of cyber fiction on this topic. The core logic is to get the fun part, I need to learn those boring knowledge, I even don't feel bored when my goal is to reach that fun part.