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It’s All Fun and Games: Teaching with Minecraft Education
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Student Assistants
Cai Anderson
Jamison Hyatt
Evie Schubert
Goal
Learning Targets
21st Century Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Reasoning effectively
Using systems thinking
Making judgments and decisions
Solving problems
Communication
Articulating thoughts and ideas
Informing, persuading, discussing
Listening for meaning
Using a variety of communication tools
Collaboration
Working with teams effectively
Making compromises to achieve a goal
Sharing responsibility with others
Valuing ideas and views of others
Creativity
Using a variety of idea creation techniques
Creating new and worthwhile ideas
Analyzing, evaluating, and refining ideas
Viewing failure as a learning opportunity
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7 Principles of Culturally Responsive Practices
1. Students are affirmed in their cultural connections
2. Teachers are personally inviting
3. Learning environments are physically and culturally inviting
4. Students are reinforced for academic development
5. Instructional changes are made to accommodate difference in learners
6. Classroom is managed with firm, consistent caring guidance
7. Interactions stress collectivity as well as individuality
Universal Design for Learning
Agenda
How to download and install
Curriculum Connections
Working with Students, Student Examples
Next Steps
Basic Controls
Build Challenge
Minecraft Commercial
Minecraft Education
Success Criteria
Content Area Ideas
Art
Designing Comics
Architecture
Pixel Selfies
Patterns, motifs
Theater/stage sets
Export for 3D printing!
Computer Science
Learn programming and coding using a block interface
Digital Citizenship
Learn about digital citizenship, digital footprint, online safety,
ELA
Model story settings
Write narratives from 3D models
Reimagined Fairy Tales
Learn different styles of writing
Equity
Good Trouble Lessons on social justice, civil rights
Math
Learn fractions, decimals arrays, area, volume, coordinate systems, and decimals with tangible examples
Model formulas and equations
Science
Model cells
Learn about alternative energy sources
Build bridges
Learn about the elements
Build a sustainable animal reserve
Social Studies
Model landmarks/maps
Learn about maps, Ancient Egypt, coats of arms, World War I
Social Emotional Learning
Selfies, empathy, self awareness and mindfulness
Ways students can share their learning
Export the world and turn it in
Have NPC’s talk and describe what you are seeing/doing
Use signs to explain what is happening in their world
Create a portfolio with images and text, then save it as a PDF
Students will:
Try to break or crash the game
Know more about it than you
Want to be destructive
Have a lot of fun
Help each other
Work faster than you might expect
Use online images/videos to help with builds
Teachers can:
Create a custom world (even based on a “seed”)
Adjust time, inventory, mob spawning, weather, use of command blocks
Turn off/on chat, add resources (links), add resource packs, and adjust many other game features
Choose Creative vs. Survival
NOT see it in Securly (it runs as an Android app)
Work Time
Uses
Full Class Activity
Small Group (enrichment or remediation)
Single Student Project/Assessment
Gaming Club
Next Steps
Assessment
Camera
Book and Quill
App Tips
Settings, Cloud Storage
Exiting App - ESC
Mystery World
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Trazader City
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You will:
Sign into Minecraft
Complete the “Build a Vehicle” Monthly Challenge (or other)
Take Pictures of your Vehicle in the game using the camera/book and quill
Export the PDF and add it to the Google Drive
Be Prepared to share your build with the class
Work Time
Q & A
Resources
Official Site:
https://education.minecraft.net/en-us
Chunker: https://chunker.app/
Custom Skins:
https://cdsmythe.com/how-to-add-custom-skins-to-minecraft-education-edition/
“Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add a custom skin on your computer”
Mods: https://www.youtube.com/@LWME Learn with Minecraft Education
Art Spencer
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