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!
Great, now pupils can learn that in the whole universe, only sand, gravel, water and lava are affected by gravity!
And they will go home and punch a tree.
Awesome way to foster and encourage the growth of creativity! That's something that seems to be lacking in some schools where they focus more on "right" or "wrong" answers rather than the thinking process required to get an answer.
Great, now pupils can learn that in the whole universe, only sand, gravel, water and lava are affected by gravity!
And they will go home and punch a tree.
Minecraft actually has helped me personally with understanding more "logical" concepts and thinking with that side of the brain. But I STILL don't understand redstone. >:|
Minecraft SMP in classrooms is going to be everyone stealing from eachother, stealing from eachother, and spawn-camping to **** people off. Its going to be a room of yelling and violence.
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!
Saw it coming though. The idea isn't new but it might be the first to succeed. :biggrin.gif:
Venit, quessit, induravit.
And they will go home and punch a tree.
Lol, that's hilarious.
I have already used MC to create a memorial to Napoleon for my social studies class, everyone was so amazed! This just puts a big smile on my face.
I began minecraft ~July 7 2011 1.7.3 Beta
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