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Second Life as a Platform for Physics Simulations and Microworlds: An Evaluation
Renato P. dos Santos
Often mistakenly seen as a game, the online 3D immersive virtual world Second Life (SL) is itself a huge and sophisticated simulator of an entire Earthlike world. Differently from…
TATI -- A Logo-like interface for microworlds and simulations for physics teaching in Second Life
Renato P. dos Santos
Student difficulties in learning Physics have been thoroughly discussed in the scientific literature. Already in 1980, Papert complained that schools teach Newtonian motion by mani…
Big Data as a Mediator in Science Teaching: A Proposal
Renato P. dos Santos
We live in a digital world that, in 2010, crossed the mark of one zettabyte data. This huge amount of data processed on computers extremely fast with optimized techniques allows on…
Second Life Physics: Virtual, real, or surreal?
Renato P. dos Santos
Science teaching detached itself from reality and became restricted to the classrooms and textbooks with their overreliance on standardized and repetitive exercises, while students…
Second Life: game, simulator, or serious game?
Renato P. dos Santos
This article reports on an exploratory case study conducted to examine the viability of Second Life (SL) as an environment for physical simulations and microworlds. It begins by di…