plime.com : Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing

Virtual characters and digital tutors are helping children and adults develop advanced social and language skills that can be tough to learn via conventional approaches, according to researchers who briefed reporters here last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. picked by TchEngRox 8 months ago

tags virtual education virtual teachers characters digital tutors American Association for the Advancement of Science Boston

244

quote edit #1

comments (2)

edit history (0)

< 1 >

5	restless...

8 months ago

« TchEngRox : Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing

Virtual characters and digital tutors are helping children and adults develop advanced social and language skills that can be tough to learn via conventional approaches, according to researchers who briefed reporters here last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

sounds very ironic .. how can a person socialize better with other human beings, when they learn from an animated screen? i can see them socializing better with animated screens than with actual people after that ... like early childhood training for becoming WoW addicts or somesuch.

quote #2

germz

8 months ago

you have entered the matrix

quote #3

About Plime

Plime is an editable wiki community where users can add and edit weird and interesting links. Users earn karma when other users vote on their actions. The more karma you have, the more power you have at Plime.

syndication

+ add a comment

< 1 >