A New Way of Learning With Minecraft

By Sacheverell Nov 4, 2011
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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!

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
school would actually be fun with minecraft invaolved!!!

unless teacher messed with it to much.....

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
wow?..... wow?!............ WOW!!
This is indescribable gawd!, i never, NEVER though of this happen to minecraft, this is way to far!

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
A class is working on a class project. Some student wanders off and gets TNT. Griefs the whole damn thing.

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
I'm still in school, and I NEED TO GET THIS TO WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF HOW WE ARE LEARNING!!!!!!!!

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
I can't wait to walk out of college at my ceremony and have the guy say "And here is our one and only person who got the Minecraft PHD, I am happy to present, Dr. Steve!"

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
Just recommended this to my principal.

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
Quote from Shaft_Master

I don't mean to be sceptical, but I can't see Minecraft as a worthwhile educational tool. I'd be interested to see where this goes.

Quote from falconfetus8

May I ask how Minecraft could possibly be used as a teaching aide?

Ok, so minecraft can be a worthwhile tool in the following ways.
-Studies on Humanities
-Studies on Sociology (not so much psychology)
-Art
-Mathematics (you would be amazed how much math really is in minecraft)
-Basic understanding of the Metric System
-Hell, with custom editions you can add a lot more where even some science classes could be taught.
-Maybe, History if someone did a remake of certain things

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
...OH...MY.............GOOD-MC.-GRAVY!!!!! this is sooooooo cool, too bad I'm home schooled...oh wait...that's a good thing. but still, Minecraft as a school subject!!!
I can see it now... "son have you done your minecraft yet?" "still working on it!"

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
Quote from tripletutorial

May I ask what the fudge people would learn playing Minecraft?

suggest you look at my earlier post

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
I can see it now

Redstone usage classes.

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
AMAZING!

heh heh heh now I can play minecraft at school and home!

huzzah!

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
Don't forget to put the final stage at my school. (As you can see, Notch pre-approved)oh wait. you cant see D:

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
my school is getting minecraft

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
FINALLY! A good reason to play Minecraft in school... other than in computer science with "But, it's written in JAVA!!!"

Too bad, I'll probably graduate before it becomes widely accepted enough and inserted into the school curriculum :/

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
Quote from falconfetus8

May I ask how Minecraft could possibly be used as a teaching aide?

If you look at the website, it seems like a more fun and creative way to hand out assignments, and also it seems that they are using it as kind of like a extra curriculum type of thing for the students to get more involved with teachers and Vice versa.

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
Quote from Shoeberrypie

Too bad, I'll probably graduate before it becomes widely accepted enough and inserted into the school curriculum :/

IF schools adopt it, that is :sad.gif:

Anyways, I'm still a rather young guy, so hopefully my schools does adopt this! :biggrin.gif:

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
OMG now I can smite with
in school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
now im unhappy im not in school still D:

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
well redstone is already the basics of circuit board design so this is only the logical next step.

education today, tomorrow the world!

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Posted Nov 4, 2011
I wish I was back in school now :ohmy.gif:, school wasn't this cool when I went!!! Lucky students. <3

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