Hey Cloggers,

This week in my EdTech class, we had some awesome visitors. A grade 6 class visited our class and showed us how to play Minecraft and they have used Minecraft as a learning resource.

Some ways that they use Minecraft in their classroom is for math lessons. They use it to look at and learn about area, volume, and coordinates through building and moving around the map. They also explained that they used Minecraft to learn about Greek mythology and used various monsters to act as different ways of death in that day and age. Interesting stuff! The teacher also created a server that she could moderate. This allowed her to pause everyone’s screen to get the class’ attention, remove players who were not following the rules, reward players who were playing nicely, and finally, change the settings of the server (day/night, weather, monsters, and creative/survival).

I ended up playing on single player for a bit. I found a really nice beach front property and decided to build a house. Here’s what came of my beach house:

(I had to stop building before it was finished because I was getting so dizzy and nauseous from my screen moving – this is a good thing to keep in mind when implementing Minecraft into the classroom because some students may be affected by this similar to how I was).

I thought Minecraft was a super cool way to get students engaged in projects. I would use it more sparingly to allow it to be a different and exciting assignment #TooMuchOfAGoodThing

Maybe I’ll finish my beach house one day…

Clogging off for now,

COordt 🙂