<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51741</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51741/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>244</score><crdate>2/22/2008 7:10:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-22T19:10:47+01:00</atomdate></link><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/plime-com/l/51741/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (2)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/plime-com/l/51741-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/plime-com/l/51741-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/plime-com/l/51741-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/plime-com/l/51741/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><comment><id>208504</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51741/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[germz @ 2/23/2008 1:17:33 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[you have entered the matrix]]></content><score></score><crdate>2/23/2008 1:17:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-23T13:17:33+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>208133</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51741/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[restlesschicken @ 2/22/2008 7:20:26 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/l/51741/1/#q1"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>TchEngRox</b> : <b><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23276977/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Thing</a></b><br/><br/>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.</i></div>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.]]></content><score></score><crdate>2/22/2008 7:20:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-22T19:20:26+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>