More advanced programming may be encouraged by showing students how to build bots. Bots are automated programs which can have all sorts of functions. For example, some worlds features bots which will play soccer with you. Other worlds feature bots which will answer questions about the world or even give you a tour. Many projects will require the co-operation of a number of people.
Literacy is promoted by the fact that the chat interface is text.
2D and 3D creative skills will be encouraged in this new medium where they will be finding out what the creative rules are, by exploration as opposed to learning by instruction. Objects which would be difficult or impossible to create may be shown easily in VR and allow immediate learning of some difficult concepts. These can all be exposed to students for them to absorb and explore. Students could exploit it still further to create structures which they can see immediately instead of having to first draw up a symbolic layout. It is continually monitored by an automated program which issues warning for bad behaviour and notifies our nominated adult supervisor.