BBC NEWS REPORT 10

WEB WORLDS

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This new talk about how virtual worlds can be valuable places where children rehearse what they will do in real life.
A research reveals, Web are also a "powerful and engaging" alternative to more passive pursuits such as watching TV.
The research was done with children using the BBC's Adventure Rock virtual world, aimed at those aged 6-12. Researchers use children and put them to explore the world alone but it uses message boards so children can share what they find and what they make in the various creative studios dotted around the virtual space.

The research revealed that children assumed one of eight roles when exploring a virtual world and using the tools they put at their disposal.

I think these research is interesting and impotant because these idea it could be true because children try to learned many useful social skills and played around with their identity in ways that would be much more difficult in real life...

But the most important thing in my point of view it´s that children can learn how they have to be in the real life and somethings that they will have to do in the future when they will be an adult...