ESL, Second Life and Teenagers : Learner Autonomy for the Digital Natives

Webcast / Presentation live from Second Life (NMC Outreach sim) as part of the 'Second Life Best Practice in Education : Teaching, Learning, Research' conference.

Listen to Sandbox A 04.00 SL time (11.00 GMT) - Friday 25th May 

Conference details: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/PresentationSchedule

What is the best way to encourage learner autonomy for our 21st Century teenage learners? Perhaps Second Life, with it's richly visual environment can be used to appeal to these "Digital Natives" (Prensky, 2001) and promote this? In this presentation, we will outline the British Council's open access project in the Teen Grid of Second Life, which aims to engage both native and non-native speakers of English, bringing them together in a space that utilises discovery-based and game-based learning activities as well as more formal methods of learning.