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'Learning is a fun thing to do, especially when you're interested...'
George Lucas (Edutopia 2009)
My Voki Lizzie, could be used as a Learning Support and a Learning Resource, which are categories based on Ron Oliver's (1999) development of strategies for online teaching and learning. A diagram of his learning design framework can be seen below:
As you can see, these 3 circles are integrated with each other. So although Learning Supports aren't the main focus of a learning design framework, a Voki like Lizzie could help maintain the balance of this framework. Lizzie could be of assistance for a teacher who can't mentor and guide all of their students on an individual level. Furthermore, Lizzie could provide information that students needed and act as the voice of a teacher to assign tasks - it would mean teachers would not have to repeat themselves over and over again.
One thing that famous movie director, George Lucas pointed out at in an interview at the Dreamforce Conference (Edutopia) was that, 'children learn out of curiousity...'. Therefore with this in mind, a Voki like Lizzie could be a helping hand in a child's discovery in learning. Every week could be a new Voki, that has something new to say, that a student will not be expecting but will be very curious to know what will happen!
References:
Edutopia 2009, George Lucas speaks at Dreamforce Conference, September 18th 2007, The George Lucas Foundation, viewed 20 August 2009
http://www.edutopia.org/george-lucas-education-dreamforce-2007
Oliver, R 1999, Exploring strategies for online teaching and learning. Distance Education, 20(2), 240-254. viewed 21 August 2009
http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/project/learn_design.htm
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