The New Technologies will take on an even great role in our learning in a few days. With a dearth of organized learning and activities for homeschoolers in the Toronto area, and Zacharie's demonstrated passion for the virtual worlds of Roblox, World of Warcraft, and Minecraft, WiloStar3D appears made to order.Zacharie has been accepted into grade 7 at the WiloStar3D Academy and he will shortly begin his first study unit with other 12 year olds from the Eastern United States.
Of course, this is the honeymoon phase (for which I am so fondly reknowned) so I am basking in the warm bright glow of the WiloStar while dustings of snow accumulate barely on the leafless trees I see from my windows. (Image is a snip from Avatar Storytellers, WiloStar3d.)
Zacharie has three pressing concerns:
- what he will tell his friends (apparently it is embarassing to go to a virtual school)
- what mods he'll be able to make to his avatar (beyond dress code, he's wondering if he'll be able to script himself)
- how he will have private conversations with classmates (is 100% sure that the school monitors each online conversation (thinks that Roblox has real people reading all conversations) and fears that he'll miss opportunities for goofy comments that kids like to make at recess and that this will be another wedge in the great ball of sadness he carries as a result of his (fortunate) de facto exclusion from mainstream public schooling)
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