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Virtual Worlds Are Useful For Children

The document discusses a research report on how virtual worlds can benefit children. It found that virtual worlds allow children to practice skills they will need in real life and provide an engaging alternative to passive media like TV. The research studied children ages 6-12 using the BBC's Adventure Rock virtual world. It found that children explored freely but also connected with others. Children were able to try different activities without real-world consequences and learned social skills. The report concluded that virtual worlds can be powerful learning tools when they involve children in the design process.

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Virtual Worlds Are Useful For Children

The document discusses a research report on how virtual worlds can benefit children. It found that virtual worlds allow children to practice skills they will need in real life and provide an engaging alternative to passive media like TV. The research studied children ages 6-12 using the BBC's Adventure Rock virtual world. It found that children explored freely but also connected with others. Children were able to try different activities without real-world consequences and learned social skills. The report concluded that virtual worlds can be powerful learning tools when they involve children in the design process.

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Virtual Worlds are Useful for Children

A research report says that virtual worlds can be important places where children
practice what they will do in real life. They are also a powerful and attractive alternative
to more passive adventures like watching TV. The research was done with children
using the BBC’s Adventure Rock virtual world, aimed at those aged 6-12. It surveyed
and interviewed children who were the first to test the game.

The online world is a themed island built for the BBC’s children channel by Belgian game
maker Larian. Children explore the world alone but they use message boards to share
what they find and what they do in the different creative studios they find around the
virtual space.

At times children were explorers and at others, they were social climbers eager to
connect with other players. Some were power users looking for more information about
how the virtual space really worked. The children could try all kinds of things without
having to be afraid of the consequences that would follow if they tried them in the real
world. They learned many useful social skills and played around with their identity in
ways that would be much more difficult in real life.

According to the study what children liked about virtual worlds was the chance to create
content such as music, cartoons, and videos.

The publishers of the report say that virtual worlds can be a powerful, engaging and real
interactive alternative to more passive media. They urged creators of virtual spaces for
children to get young people involved very early on because they really do have good
ideas to add and they are very good critical friends.

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Task: Make 5 questions (Previewing) and answer the questions (Predicting).

Questions

1. What is main idea of the last paragraph?


2. According to the passage, where do the children get chance to practice anything?
3. Based from the text, why virtual worlds can be important places for children?
4. According to the passage, when can the children learn about virtual worlds?
5. In the second of the last paragraph, who is referred to by the word ‘they’?

Answers

1. Main idea of the last paragraph is virtual worlds can be an alternative interactive
to expressing the creativity of children.
2. In virtual worlds, children can try all kinds of things without having to be afraid of
the consequences if they tried them in the real world.
3. Virtual worlds can be important places for children because with virtual worlds,
children could practice what they will do in real life.
4. Children can learn about virtual worlds when they were 6-12 years old.
5. The word ‘they’ in the second sentence of the last paragraph refers to the
publishers of the report.

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