This just restored some of my faith in the American educational system. I have used Minecraft to help teach my nieces about quite a bit, so I understand the sheer magnitude of possibilities for a learning environment. (the 5yr old told me yesterday as I was testing a new texture "It needs a little noise, and some darker shading"...wtf? lol) I am behind this project 100%, and I hope that people worldwide open their minds and let their children benefit from this brilliant project.
@mrbaggins : I highly doubt that. And if you truly are a High School teacher...I hope your students are smarter than you.
Minecraft is horrible at TEACHING valuable lessons I have seen many a dumb ass play this game and not learn a thing. It is however a decent place to apply logistic thinking but you can't really learn anything from it. Still it should be kept out of classrooms as it will just waste students and teachers time. Then again I'm all for the game being available on school computers to play during their breaks but not as part of any proper curriculum.
If I had a child I'd want them to be educated not babysat at a pseudo arcade... They can play when they get home.
Next stop: Minecraft used in military simulations!
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Instructions: Flip the correct switch on the wall that answers the math problem. If you get it right, the iron door will open to the next room. If you get it wrong, you fill have to deal with one of the following:
1. Lava
2. A TNT cannon
3. Arrows
4. Creepers
Now that I see it, with some building skills, Minecraft could have potential for educational use.
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"Science isn't a matter of WHY, it's a matter of WHY NOT? WHY is so much of our science dangerous? Why don't you marry safe science if you love it so much? In fact, why don't you invent a special safety door that won't slam you in the butt on your way out? BECAUSE YOU ARE FIRED!" -Cave Johnson
PVP and monsters are off by default on MinecraftEdu.
With MinecraftEdu servers, teachers can get the server up and running within three clicks and can set teacher password, which will be asked when users are logging or users can login as student if they do not know the password: http://minecraftedu.com/img/screenies/MCEdu-screenshot-27.jpg
Everything is currently localized to english and finnish, but we are adding more languages in the future.
Currently teachers can freeze/unfreeze, mute/unmute all students, but we will just write a new player list from a scratch for the next release so that teachers can invidually control students.
As for the teaching part: We will at first target it for lower grades, classes 2-6 to teach math, geography, history, languages, teamwork, creativity, but we've also been contacted from higher educational institutions with ideas like "demonstrating how production management works". At first we will be providing just MP maps, but in the future single player assignment maps and also ways for teacher to demonstrate effects in their projector.
I can imagine the teacher teaching minecraft,"How many hearts of damage does a zombie do on easy difficulty?" xD I wish they would come to our school, but its highly unlikely :sad.gif:
@mrbaggins : I highly doubt that. And if you truly are a High School teacher...I hope your students are smarter than you.
If I had a child I'd want them to be educated not babysat at a pseudo arcade... They can play when they get home.
Jokes aside, this seems like a great idea for teaching in my opinion.
*TOTALLY ORIGINAL*
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Hmm, Wait till you get to measuring the area of a triangle ohh circles too...
1. Lava
2. A TNT cannon
3. Arrows
4. Creepers
Now that I see it, with some building skills, Minecraft could have potential for educational use.
We all have a different perception of the perfect world. Deal with it.
When i said religion i meant all types of discrimination (unreasonable ones).
But the religious one was the first one to come up on my mind.
If this comes to australia, Notch officially completed my childhood life.
Basically the premade maps are protected, so students can only build on certain areas / cannot destroy blocks from certain areas and students cannot go past map borders: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28919118/mcEdu/24102011/10_student_protection.png
PVP and monsters are off by default on MinecraftEdu.
With MinecraftEdu servers, teachers can get the server up and running within three clicks and can set teacher password, which will be asked when users are logging or users can login as student if they do not know the password: http://minecraftedu.com/img/screenies/MCEdu-screenshot-27.jpg
Teachers will be automatically opped and they will be granted option to use the teacher panel to tweak settings, give theirselves items or set assignments to students.
Assingment window: http://minecraftedu.com/img/screenies/MCEdu-screenshot-19.jpg
Auto-completing give item panel: http://minecraftedu.com/img/screenies/MCEdu-screenshot-21.jpg
Everything is currently localized to english and finnish, but we are adding more languages in the future.
Currently teachers can freeze/unfreeze, mute/unmute all students, but we will just write a new player list from a scratch for the next release so that teachers can invidually control students.
As for the teaching part: We will at first target it for lower grades, classes 2-6 to teach math, geography, history, languages, teamwork, creativity, but we've also been contacted from higher educational institutions with ideas like "demonstrating how production management works". At first we will be providing just MP maps, but in the future single player assignment maps and also ways for teacher to demonstrate effects in their projector.
Hope this clarifies some points.
Best,
Aleksi
I think I will suggest that to my group