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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Virtual Skills = Real Skills

I hope the use of the word "virtual" here is not meant to imply less value or inferior to "real" life skills. The social skills, work ethics and friendships are very real in a virtual world.

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Raising Virtual Children

These are places of learning. This student is learning to look for symptoms; earlier in the article, she was flipping burgers to make money for a scooter. She needed 50 bucks so she could buy a scooter. This is a place of learning, learning virtual social skills, virtual work ethics, and making virtual friends. This is all stuff you and I do not understand, but to these students, this generation., this is their playground
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