The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Hello all! I'm a middle school social studies teacher, and I thought you might be interested in how I've been using Minecraft as an enrichment and engagement tool. Take a look!
In any case, I believe this is the sort of changes that schools should make to their curriculum in order to make learning more accessible for people with ADHD or with very right brained thought patterns. Pounding information into my head never worked if I wasn't interested in it.
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The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Thanks everyone! The kids love it, and I have seen excellent results in the grades and engagement of students who choose to play outside of school hours. I will be incorporating results and survey data into my master's research work this summer. And pwnguin -- I don't even teach in America, and the game is completely optional. We follow the International Baccalaureate curriculum framework, which has extremely high standards and expectations. This game is played outside of school, in the students' own time. So it's like extra school that they choose to do - quite the opposite of dumbing-down classroom content. This only makes student learning more in-depth and active. So nice try with that tired old "argument".
Second life has online, interactive type environments like this. I think online education, online classrooms will become a major part of our society in the future.
There are many benefits to this type of education:
- One teacher or even a recorded lecture can teach thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in one lecture
- Access to certain types of education is available anywhere there is a computer (in today's society, this is pretty much everywhere and anywhere)
- Engagement amoung the people is a lot higher
- Study costs would be lowered drastically
- The education can be used at ones own pace (We all have different learning patterns, ages at which we "want" to learn, the rate at which we learn).
- The advancement of our society would benefit greatly
- No longer is one bound to their local universities, colleges, schools due to funds, transportation, disability ect
I for one find myself on youtube education videos and mit lectures more and more these days...and the fact that it is free (besides basic ISP costs) makes it all the more welcoming and enjoyable. Free educution and learning at ones own pace FTW
1:Why couldn't I have had you as a teacher when I was in middle school?
2: This looks awesome!!!
3: What school do you teach at? The one I went to wouldn't even let us use the school computers for research, we had to do it at home.
meh too lazy to find it
Anyways, this is 'murica for everyone out there.
There are many benefits to this type of education:
- One teacher or even a recorded lecture can teach thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in one lecture
- Access to certain types of education is available anywhere there is a computer (in today's society, this is pretty much everywhere and anywhere)
- Engagement amoung the people is a lot higher
- Study costs would be lowered drastically
- The education can be used at ones own pace (We all have different learning patterns, ages at which we "want" to learn, the rate at which we learn).
- The advancement of our society would benefit greatly
- No longer is one bound to their local universities, colleges, schools due to funds, transportation, disability ect
I for one find myself on youtube education videos and mit lectures more and more these days...and the fact that it is free (besides basic ISP costs) makes it all the more welcoming and enjoyable. Free educution and learning at ones own pace FTW