Minecraft @ school

"Minecraft Vocabulary - This is a list of words that are essential for a good Minecraft experience. We encourage you to contribute additional words, along with Minecraft context, and any tips for new players. "

"Some thoughts on setting up Minecraft at school A few people have been asking for some resources for Minecraft in education and I thought I'd post a few links here as well as a few reflections of my own."

"The explorers journal could take the form of an offline, paper and pencil notebook/log folder or online blog. The journal will have two kinds of entries: thematic and personal: "

"This is a picture of learning in action. It's what happens when you go off-road and really explore and test the limits of things and disaster becomes success. It's also the basis for meaningful, autonomous and open ended learning and play. And the starting point for EDGElab's exploration (and destruction) of Minecraft. "

"Gever Tulley's 50 Dangerous Things approach to learning through experimentation - and danger! "

"destruction? Minecraft offers a wonderful assortment of dangerous elements to play and learn with. Like fire and lava. My favourite Minecraft Tutorial captures the beauty of learning with fire. "

"Studies dating to the 1940s indicate that blocks help children absorb basic math concepts. One published in 2001 tracked 37 preschoolers and found that those who had more sophisticated block play got better math grades and standardized test scores in high school. And a 2007 study by Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Hospital, found that those with block experience scored significantly better on language acquisition tests. "

"Post Nuclear War Challenge "This challenge is essentially a post-apocalyptic scenario. The goal is to create the ultimate bunker for surviving the apocalypse. I searched the forums, but did not find such a challenge listed, so I thought I'd try and post one."

The villager mod that adds extra npcs to the game - specif types of villages, currency, commerce, cooperation

"Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens."

"Millénaire is a single-player mod for Minecraft. It aims to fill the "emptyness" of single-player worlds by adding NPC villages to it, with loose 11th-century Norman, North Indian and Mayans themes and additional cultures planned. Villages are populated with men, women and children of various kinds, who perform tasks such as trading with the player, expending current buildings or improving existing ones, cultivating crops such as wheat in Norman villages and rice in Indian ones, crafting tools and powerful amulets, etc. As the village expends, the number of villagers increases as couples have children who grow up into new adults."

"tutorial on how to make YOUR OWN mods for Minecraft. You DO NOT need to have programming knowledge, but it helps. Also, this demonstration is on PC, but if you are a Mac user, it is the same concept."

"Welcome to the Massively Minecraft Community for Educators You are invited to join Massively Minecraft, a professional community of educators preparing to explore a new game suitable for children as young as 4 years of age, yet expansible enough to still stir the imagination and interaction of late teens and adults."

"I didn't really know what to expect, but what I discovered was that the game really afforded some nice learning opportunities for the students. First, the kids really needed to know how to make decisions based on priorities. Is it more important to start exploring right away? How important is shelter? Should I kill all the cows and pigs around, or build a rudimentary axe and start collecting wood? How important is a torch on that first night alone in the wilderness? "

"This is part 1 of the tutorial on how to make YOUR OWN mods for Minecraft. You DO NOT need to have programming knowledge, but it helps. Also, this demonstration is on PC, but if you are a Mac user, it is the same concept. All you have to figure out are the OSX equivalents to what I am showing you in this tutorial!"

"CraftStudio is a multiplayer platform to create games and interactive movies. It's about empowering gamers and blurring the line between playing and creating. It makes a few trade-offs (a low-poly, pixel-arty look) to allow gamers with no particular experience to: Create, paint and animate 3D models (characters, objects) out of blocks. Craft infinite maps (think Minecraft's creative mode), painting your own blocks to create whatever universe you want. Give life to their worlds using a visual scripting system. It's all real-time, you can collaborate with friends or strangers over the Internet. You can set up your own server or join an existing project."

"The Colosseum is roughly elliptical in shape, with its long axis, oriented WSW-ESE, which measures 188m and the short one 156m." We learned that anything as tall, or taller, needs to be sunk below sea level."

This wiki is devoted to hosting ideas, lessons, implementation strategies and more related to using the game, Minecraft in a school setting Whether you use it in a computer/gaming club, as part of your regular curricular instruction, or even at home with your own children, Minecraft's simple yet scalable "sandbox" virtual environment can be an excellent tool for engaging student learning. The open-ended nature of the game lends it to application in a variety of subject areas. Game-based learning, virtual worlds, and simulations are emerging tools for reaching our learners.

" all the great forms of learning it engages. .. the educational virtues of the game's simple graphics, play/mechanics and sandbox maker-ness. I'd add: self-directed, autonomous, creative, metacognitive, social and experiential learning. That's right, the learning that already exists - not stuff you add to minecraft."

A lot of really basic things, like chopping trees with your hands, knowing how to build a crafting table and some of the "recipes" for basic objects you need to stay alive are not at all intuitive.