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Lisa Spiro

MinecraftEdu - 2 views

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    Not sure about this. Really not sure about it.
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    From what I can tell, the game is really popular with k-12 kids. The idea might be worth considering, but that doesn't make this a good implementation.
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    "MinecraftEdu is the collaboration of a small team of educators and programmers from the United States and Finland. We are working with Mojang AB of Sweden, the creators of Minecraft, to make the game affordable and accessible to schools everywhere. We have also created a suite of tools that make it easy to unlock the power of Minecraft in YOUR classroom. "
Bryan Alexander

Historical map in Minecraft - 4 views

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    The NYPL recreates one of its special collection historical maps in Minecraft.
Ed Webb

Minecraft: If you build it, they will play - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent - 7 views

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    Nice appreciation of Minecraft. I'm glad they catch the importance of RPG elements - I'd call it storytelling, but accept this for now.
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    Been trying to follow it, but their beta tests are tightly scheduled, and keep missing me.
Ed Webb

Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school? - Quartz - 4 views

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    This is pretty great.
Ed Webb

Bond University conducts class through Minecraft after flood damage closes ca... - 4 views

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    Whoa! A glimpse of the future?
Bryan Alexander

Minecraft: striking gold in the classroom? - 1 views

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    Using Google in the classroom, a UK story
Ed Webb

BBC News - Minecraft maker reveals new 'hard science-fiction' game - 2 views

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    Want.
Brett Boessen

Minicraft - 7 views

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    Persson produced this in 48 hours for a game design competition.
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    Very clever. Now to figure out how to use the workbench...
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    Just walk up to it and press X -- it opens the window, which lists everything you can make and which/how much resources are needed to make the item. If you have gathered enough, it will list those you are able to make at the top of the list. It does not seem like you can pick up a workbench like you can in Minecraft, but maybe I'm missing something.
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    I guess I need to gather more resources. ...or get back to work! Click to focus indeed.
Ed Webb

BBC News - Why Minecraft is more than just another video game - 2 views

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    Nice. One of the few games my children play together.
Ed Webb

BBC News - Minecraft game adds Ordnance Survey GB terrain data - 2 views

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    "I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps..."
Ed Webb

'Minecraft' Designer: Gaming Industry Should Emulate Board Games, Not Hollywo... - 3 views

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    *Very* interesting. I wonder what that would mean - selling low-cost units?
Bryan Alexander

How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read | WIRED - 0 views

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    Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic-the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and...
Ed Webb

Video games are the answer to the New Boring | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • And then there's Saint's Row 3, an open-world crime shooter, that seems to have been concocted entirely by hyperactive 14-year-olds force fed on a diet of sherbet, Red Bull and Korean gangster movies. This is a game in which the player can, entirely at random, bludgeon passers-by with a giant dildo. To the best of my knowledge, Downton Abbey features nothing even remotely comparable – although, to be fair, I skipped most of season two, and may have missed a key scene in which Hugh Bonneville attacks his butler with some nightmarish Edwardian device intended for the cure of female hysteria.
  • Please, if you are a parent and you want something to do with your kids on a wet Sunday afternoon, don't rent the latest heavily marketed CGI bore-fest from a Hollywood studio more interested in selling you merchandise and the moral agenda of its self-serving financers, buy Zelda. Buy Zelda and share a genuinely thrilling, heart-warming escapist fantasy with your children. Certainly, it's not as 'good' as taking them to a museum or getting them to play footie in the park, but if the only alternative is Horrid Henry, it is spectacular – and they will never forget it.
  • Interactivity is a blunt but effective tool to ensure attention and alertness. And as such, video games have never sought to stultify or repress. Video games are not interested in teaching us to make the most out of our tired soft furnishings.
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  • Forget mainstream TV, forget it. It's over – at least in terms of water cooler discussion. Apprentice and X-Factor may reliably trend on Twitter, but it's all ironic chatter mixed with barely-disguised collective embarrassment and culpability. There's nothing enriching there.
  • games demand immersion and investment. Traditionally, this has formed a stereotype of dead-eyed zombies slumped in front of monitors, but of course, through XBox Live and PSN, gamers now constantly communicate with each other, as well as share creative tasks in titles like Little Big Planet and Minecraft. New research from Michigan State University suggests that gamers are more imaginative story-tellers – the findings are far from conclusive, but they don't surprise me. The game worlds in Zelda, Uncharted and Dark Souls are rich and deep. They are cluttered with possibilities.
  • Games get to us on some primal level, they speak to the machine code of the human id – and that can be a good thing.
  • You have your doubts and so do I. But the very least mainstream games do is give us a platform to discuss amazing things. When you talk about Zelda or Uncharted 3, you can talk about beauty, art, mythology and adventure; when you talk about the forthcoming Bioshock: Infinite, you can cover architecture, paranoia and politics and it all makes perfect sense. These elements aren't hidden away, to be teased out by cultural studies students desperate to apply their knowledge of Derrida and Saussure. They're there in the very form, the very function of the games. Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 are idiotic and politically suspect, but give them five minutes and they'll show you more about the computerised lunacy of contemporary conflict than most of those MOD-arranged shaky cam war reports beamed into your living rooms by over-stretched 24-hour news channels
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