We Interrupt

Аннотация

In just one example, I visited a college in Tennessee that had just reworked its "Model United Nations" class for the cyber era. For close to 20 years, students had conducted tlieir simulated Ceneral Assembly meetings together in a room. They spent the semester learning about I he cultures and political landscapes they were representing and then came together to negotiate face to face on their nations' behalf. In the new version of the class, students entered the very same room—now outfitted with long tahles with computer terminals. Eaeh sludeut signed onto his or her own workstation, logged into a simulation called Second Life, and interacted in a virtual reality version ofthe classroom. They then conducted their same model UN as a cyber simulation.