Second Life is getting “voice”. It already has a university campus. Sweden is opening an embassy there soon. Teachers at distance learning institutions are already running sessions within this virtual world. The pedagogical potential is enormous.

Sony seems to have realised this and jumped on the bandwagon.

The resources available to teachers today appear to be limitless. But availability isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It doesn’t help for things to be available if people don’t know about them, or are afraid or suspicious of them.

How do we cross this great divide and combine the knowledge that teachers are able to share, the value that they have to add, with the technology that their learners know how to use? Perhaps teachers need to spend some time being learners for a bit, and allow their classes to teach them. As a joint exercise, it must surely be achievable?