Minecraft

What is Minecraft for Education?

Minecraft Education is the educational version of the very popular game Minecraft. It’s a learning tool that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem solving in our students. What makes it really unique is that it’s an immersive environment, and a game that your students will know and love, where the only limitation is your imagination.

Why should I consider Minecraft for my school?

Minecraft Education is a game based learning tool. and game based learning is a teaching strategy and approach that has many different ways of engaging your students.

First and foremost we have motivation – students are going to be more motivated to take part in lessons.

Secondly, Minecraft Education promotes Engagement – helping hold the attention of your students over prolonged periods of time or even over the course of days, weeks or even months for long term project based learning.

And there’s also that amazing feature of graceful failure when it comes to video games. They’re in an environment where they’re not scared to make mistakes, because that’s what games are all about, and that’s what Minecraft Education can bring to you, your teaching and your students.

What age group is Minecraft Education suitable for?

The amazing thing about Minecraft Education is that it is open to all age groups as young as four or five, six years old, all the way up to the ages of 18 and even beyond.

Once younger students can engage with the device, be able to play the game, they can access it fully.

However, it’s not just for primary school students and younger students. There is curriculum aligned lessons and resources out there for students of all ages.

When it comes to secondary school students or even senior cycle students, Minecraft Education plays a key role when it comes to assessment. More specifically, classroom based assessments, where the game can actually be used as a presentation tool for students to bring their ideas to life.

Students can also use it as a project based learning tool, which can incorporate other digital tools where they can create videos detailing worlds or builds they’ve created in response to a prompt, or even submissions based on and using the inbuilt assessment tools over the game itself.

Is Minecraft suitable for secondary school and senior cycle students?

So the amazing thing about Minecraft Education is that it fosters future ready skills.

These are the soft skills like collaboration and communication that you will see amongst your students once they get in game. But there’s also tools within the game that will promote engagement with other subjects like computer science or even cyber based subjects as well, which will help to prepare your student to fill those future roles that may not exist just yet.

What knowledge of gaming do educators need to use Minecraft Education?

When it comes to Minecraft Education, we have a golden rule for the teachers, facilitators, and educators that we work with – you do not have to be a good Minecraft player to be an incredible Minecraft Educator.

With Minecraft Education you can move out of the role of being the fountain of knowledge, having all the answers, and move into a facilitator role, working with your students towards achieving the learning outcomes that you want, as your students might even take up the role of being mentors or leaders when it comes to Minecraft Education.

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