Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom
Minecraftedu is basically a customized modification of the game, that helps facilitate organization and focus for teachers to use Minecraft effectively. In addition, Joel Levin, the founder of MinecraftEdu, provides ideas and updates at The Minecraft Teacher blog.
Technology is responsible for helping children acquire many skills. As a teacher we should embrace technology and use the many benefits that it has to offer to implement classroom strategies in the classing. There are very few students these days that are not familiar with Ipods, Ipads, Iphones and many of the digital technologies like computers, digital phones. Incorporating the technology as a resource and a tool will require careful planning and some student centered learning. More and more teachers are using games like minecraft to help students explore literature and reading comprehension.
If you use Minecraftedu, this versions has created the students with opportunities to
- Explore real life buildings
- Practice ratio and proportion
- Learn about survival
- Visualize the stories and goes as far as allowing the students an opportunity to create various settings from the Text as they recreate scenes and plots.
- Great resource to assess students with reading comprehension skills, problem solving and collaborating with classmates on group projects.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/minecraft-in-classroom-andrew-miller
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