Case Example: Tipping the Iceberg
"Children created and tested hypotheses, nearly all of which involved organizing a critical mass of other penguins to participate in the form of 'tipping parties.' The most commonly observed strategy was physical: clustering penguins on one side of the iceberg, as it was felt based on real world principles of physics, that massing avatars at a single point might trigger the tip...The attempts to tip the iceberg were part of a community effort, not just in the hypothesis testing in the virtual space, but also in the flourishing digital conversation in the preteen blogosphere that supported these attempts. Thousands of users — children and adults — recorded questions and responses on Yahoo!"