Teachers have long used a wide variety of tools to teach students, even games. Now, Minecraft joins the ranks of titles which are both fun and educational, and you can see it in action right now! MinecraftEdu is a collaborative team of educators and programmers who seek to bring Minecraft to the classroom in affordable ways, so it can be accessible to as many schools as possible. They offer onsite workshops and in-service training to help educators use this incredible game to its fullest potential in a learning environment. In the near future, they will also be offering custom game versions, easy-to-use servers for classroom-driven SMP, a library of worlds, levels and activities to assist in activities, and more!
While still in the private beta stage, this remarkable project sets itself up to take the learning world by storm, merging learning and gaming in amazing new ways. Keep an eye out for MinecraftEdu, coming out soon!
The first thing I'm gonna do if this gets into my school is get flymod into it and laugh at the other people not being able to fly, or at least fly faster than them if creative mode is enabled xD
This seems like a great idea, but I do wish to know exactly how minecraft could teach something, especially STEM-related topics. If programming is an area of focus, that is understandable, as are logic gates for discrete mathematics perhaps, but beyond those, I just cannot see how minecraft could be educational.
Shhhhhhh! dont tell anyone that! im trying to convince my teacher to get it for my school.......
Minecraft taught me that if I put three diamonds on top of 2 sticks I can get a pickaxe that will smash anything to bits in 5 seconds, that you aren't guaranteed to get meat or skin off a dead cow, that gold is the most useless metal on the planet and that creepers are EVERYWHERE.
I'm not sure how I feel about this.. I mean, what would it teach? I think if they're teaching kids how to make mods and teaching Java, then I'm all for it! If they're teaching kids how to make a texture pack and do art, then again I'm for it! But after looking at the website.. they don't seem to directly say anywhere how this will help students learn. I mean, I don't see how math is involved (realistically), I don't see how you're learning any science with this (biomes, maybe, but that's it), and English I don't see being learned either. I just think this is some school's excuse to let their kids waste time and I personally think Minecraft should be an at home game. And this is coming from someone who adores the game.
I'm a little doubtfull of the potential for minecraft to be used in the class room...what would it teach? Would it just be a place to hold classes? If thats the case there are better online places. Mind craft...its sort of limited in the teaching aspect in my mind...less they are teaching the kids the dangers of leaving the door open at night.
Wouldn't there be Minecraft there and that around the world, spreading in numerious varities that people will just show off and do stuff like that? Besides after I told my friends about Minecraft, they started spreading around the school, showing off ( which they don't EVEN HAVE MINECRAFT ) , which causes people to lose it and tell them lies about how cool they made or stuff like that. But after reading some of these, I understand that Minecraft is just for fun and all, not at competition, well a little competition, not as in for the hard way...
1. math
2. biology project
3. punch tree
4.english paper
she said we'll talk tomarrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what should i say to convince her?????
I might join ya.
Hehe.