Author: Vickie Kuhn

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft visits our school to learn about the Minecraft project

February 24, 2021 /

Satya Nadella, world CEO of Microsoft, visited our school together with other authorities from the world of education and politics to learn about the project: Minecraft Educational Zone, a project developed in the Religion subject of 1st year of ESO and that is part of the pedagogical innovation plan of our school.

This is the video that we prepare to receive Satya, we share it with all of you:

Here you have the press dossier with the repercussion in the media that the visit generated.

The best Minecraft tutorial for teachers

February 24, 2021 /

Tutorial with all the details to introduce Minecraft in class:

  1. Where to download it . How much? What is the difference between the Premium and non-Premium version? What is a non-premium launcher.
  2. How to play. Visual guide and PDF with instructions on everything you need to know to get started
  3. Install Minecraft in the classroom.
  4. Differences between ‘Single player’ and ‘Multiplayer’
  5. Types of servers. Open game on LAN, local dedicated server, remote dedicated server

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Minecraft in education

February 23, 2021 /

Minecraft in the classrooms

Minecraft has great potential for use in education for these three reasons:

  1. Being an open world creativity can fly, and our students can build anything, even mechanisms.
  2. It is a multiplayer  game and therefore facilitates team, cooperative and project work. Playing is not isolating, it is teaming up, supporting each other, having fun, completing adventures and building together.
  3. The game can be modified to the point that a teacher could design an adventure focused on the theme of their subject to create a story or laws through which the student can learn content of the curriculum.

Pedagogical resources – Studies

February 23, 2021 /

Studies

Pedagogical integration of the Minecraft EDU application in Primary Education. Case study:

1) Pedagogical integration of the Minecraft EDU application in Primary Education. Case study

2) Teaching Scientific Concepts using a Virtual World – Minecraft

3) Minecraft, Beyond Construction and Survival

4) Using Minecraft in Education: A Qualitative Study on Benefits and Challenges of Game-Based Education

5) Minecraft in the classroom: ideas, inspiration, and students projects for teachers

6) Exploring Application, Attitudes and Integration of Video Games: MinecraftEdu in Middle School

7) Minecraft or Mindcraft? The Value of Online Games in Education

8) Is Minecraft Educational?

9) Games, problems, based learning, and Minecraft