Sliverhairedman

School of Atlantis is a great idea that ticks many of the right boxes. Getting parents on board and maintaining a degree of structure and discipline in the virtual school environment will be as critical as the freedom of expression and creativity allowed by the avatars in the game. In school you may need to restrict the more cool elements of some of the avatars to keep minds focussed and maintain some real world grounding.

Cizessio, New ideas have to start somewhere and evolve, that the team has launched it so early shows they are inviting not only investment funds but also feedback from the gaming & it community and educators as well as people like myself who worry about the inadequacy of many aspects of traditional education

In terms of the real world education needs to move past rewarding participation, but has winners and people who come second, because that's what happens in the real world. The game environment brings that sort of challenge. Young workers also need to realise that some of us silver haired oldies can sometimes offer wisdom, as long as we can show we are also engaged in lifetime learning. Also promotion comes after hard work and not always because of our own inflated sense of worth and impatience.

Looks as I needed a better education as I can't spell. One of the biggest criticisms of conventional education is the failure of a whole generation of young people having adequate language and literacy skills for the real world. Social media has changed language faster than at any time since it was codified. I'll be keen to see how these skills are developed in the game. The last thing I'd want to see is the rote learning of my childhood (though I can count and spell), nor the barbaric discipline of the cane and it's associated bullying which is being advocated by some of the rednecks in our society. It will be interesting to see school of Atlantis breaking through the ongoing trend in some countries of learning lots of facts and figures rather than developing the powers of thought and deduction.