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"Student Feature on the educational value of Minecraft"

Part 2 in the guest blog series by Marianne Malstrom on NetFamily News. More great insight :)

This article features the popular fast-talking video making its way around the web that showcases how Mincraft may very well be "the ultimate education tool." Whether you agree or not, the video raises some interesting ideas. Basically, the Idea Channel folks (who made the video) posit that Minecraft is such a valuable tool because it's so customizable. They talk about how video games have long been used in education but how Minecraft offers a new approach by letting the player construct the game. In other words, a teacher could build his or her own video game tailored to the lessons being taught in the classroom. The students could then enter that custom game and explore, learn, and even build upon it themselves. This blog post editorializes the video and provides both pros and cons regarding the use of Minecraft in education based on comments made about the video.

There's a popular fast-talking video making its way around the web that showcases how Mincraft may very well be "the ultimate education tool." Whether you agree or not, the video raises some interesting ideas.

Wonderfully written reflection by an 8th grader on the benefits of MC.

Massively minecraft is an online community encouraging students and parents to play minecraft together.

This stream includes Knowclue Kidd and her students from Elizabeth Morrow Middle School providing a tour through their Morrowcraft server, their wiki, and a demo of the game 'Escape from Morrow' that they created in MineCraft.