The large investments from big tech-companies and the vast attention that policy-makers around the globe are concentrating on the concept of metaverse are contributing in making it the “next big thing” in the course of the digital revolution that we will experience in the next decade. This concept, the metaverse, though, is not entirely new. A few decades ago, experiences such as Second Life, video games such as World of Warcraftor Fortnite, or certain social platforms strongly based on para-social interactions (e.g. Twitch) have already provided glimpses of what could be the future scenario of an internet enriched by the metaverse. It is thanks to cases like these that, in this exploratory phase, we can raise meaningful and important questions and reflections about the education-al, training and didactic dimension of the metaverse. Which challenges and which opportunity can the metaverse bring to the world of education? What are the next kinds of digital divide that need to be addressed? How could the concept of educational relationship and educational presence change? The contribution intends to answer, with a pedagogical perspective, these, and other questions that the new immersive project proposed by Meta necessarily raises

I grandi investimenti delle grandi aziende tecnologiche e la grande attenzione che i decisori politici di tutto il mondo stanno concen-trando sul concetto di metaverso stanno contribuendo a renderlo la “prossima grande novità” nel corso della rivoluzione digitale che sperimenteremo nel prossimo decennio. Questo concetto, il metaverso, però, non è del tutto nuovo. Qualche decennio fa, esperienzecome Second Life, videogiochi come World of Warcrafto Fortnite, o certe piattaforme social fortemente basate su interazioni para-sociali (es. Twitch) hanno già fornito scorci di quello che potrebbe essere lo scenario futuro di un internet arricchito dal metaverso. È grazie a casi come questi che, in questa fase esplorativa, possiamo sollevare interrogativi e riflessioni significative e importanti sulla dimensione educativa, formativa e didattica del metaverso. Quali sfide e quali opportunità può portare il metaverso al mondo dell'istruzione? Quali sono i prossimi tipi di divario digitale che devono essere affrontati? Come potrebbe cambiare il concetto di relazione educativa e di presenza educativa? Il contributo intende rispondere, in chiave pedagogica, a queste e ad altre domande che il nuovo progetto immersivo proposto da Meta necessariamente pone

Soriani Alessandro, Bonafede Paolo (2023). Metaverse and education : which pedagogical perspectives for the school of tomorrow?. JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AND TEACHING, 3(1), 1-9.

Metaverse and education : which pedagogical perspectives for the school of tomorrow?

Soriani Alessandro
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2023

Abstract

The large investments from big tech-companies and the vast attention that policy-makers around the globe are concentrating on the concept of metaverse are contributing in making it the “next big thing” in the course of the digital revolution that we will experience in the next decade. This concept, the metaverse, though, is not entirely new. A few decades ago, experiences such as Second Life, video games such as World of Warcraftor Fortnite, or certain social platforms strongly based on para-social interactions (e.g. Twitch) have already provided glimpses of what could be the future scenario of an internet enriched by the metaverse. It is thanks to cases like these that, in this exploratory phase, we can raise meaningful and important questions and reflections about the education-al, training and didactic dimension of the metaverse. Which challenges and which opportunity can the metaverse bring to the world of education? What are the next kinds of digital divide that need to be addressed? How could the concept of educational relationship and educational presence change? The contribution intends to answer, with a pedagogical perspective, these, and other questions that the new immersive project proposed by Meta necessarily raises
2023
Soriani Alessandro, Bonafede Paolo (2023). Metaverse and education : which pedagogical perspectives for the school of tomorrow?. JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AND TEACHING, 3(1), 1-9.
Soriani Alessandro; Bonafede Paolo
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