Calling all GAMERS!

This week in our studies we have been talking about multiple intelligence and ways that education can be innovated.  I was searching unique learning styles for different personality types, and came across an interesting article.  

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Minecraft was a big hit in our house about 3 years ago.  For those not familiar with it, it is an imaginary world where a child can use different resources to build different items, houses, worlds...you name it! I even heard of a boy that built an entire Titanic replica. 

 

Well Minecraft has done it again. In January, 2017 Minecraft launched "Minecraft for Education". 

Minecraft for education is a new Application that added several features for teachers.  Teachers can now distribute an account to all students for a specific class, see where all of the students are on the map, and even give specific resources to be used in construction. 

These education features have been added in the hopes that teachers will get students involved in the studies of different subjects.  Right now the biggest obstacle being faced is that someone has to create all of the worlds for students to visit.  Either a teacher or a student will need to set up the original world for others to join.  

I am not a "gamer" and I never really understood the world of Minecraft.  But if my 7th grader's reaction when I told him about this is indicative of other middle school students,  Minecraft for Education is going to be quite successful! 

Resources: 

Homepage. (n.d.). Retrieved April 7, 2017, from https://education.minecraft.net/