Check out this fascinating blog post (and great discussion) from Lisa Galarneau whom we met a couple of weeks ago at ULearn.

From Lisa’s comments

“… But one of the big problems, as I see it, and one of the main contributors to problematic usage, is that some people develop socio-cultural fluency in-world that they aren’t able to transfer to RL, over time building a marked dichotomy between their abilities in the two spheres, causing them to retreat even more fully into the one they inhabit most successfully. I think this is both a big issue and a huge opportunity… how do we help people transfer that literacy into RL?”

The discussion about transferability is the important one that we need to have. I remain unconvinced that any one is able to automatically transfer the skills that they learn in one situation to a new one.

I agree that this is, though, a huge opportunity  for further thinking and research.