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Minecraft, un jeu à portée éducative. Minecraft Learning. MinecraftTeachr. Joel Levin @MinecraftTeachrComputer Teacher at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in NYC.Owner of TeacherGaming LLC, creators of MinecraftEduminecraftteacher.netminecraftedu.com Bob Kahn@rwkahn38th grade science teacher at Brentwood School in Los A Alex Leavitt@alexleavittPhD Student, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism - Studying the "cultural importance of Minecraft, especially with regard to participatory spaces online".

Heather Burditt@swiss_army_wifeAdvocate for "Radical Unschooling" Greg Lastowka@greglasTeaches intellectual property law at Rutgers Univ Micah Malmstrom@MrMalmstromMember of the Technology Department at the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, MinecraftInSchool.com | Ideas, resources and lesson plans for using Minecraft at school. Minecraft Crafting | A Minecraft Crafting Guide. Minecraft. MinecraftEdu. Teachers Guide: Five ways Minecraft (and other video games) can boost student writing skills. With the recent surge of interest in using video games in schools, I’ve been asked a lot about what gaming looks like in my class. I thought I’d share five ways I’ve used video games, like Minecraft, to help boost student success with their writing skills.

Before we get started, I want to make clear that there is much learning happening while people play video games. I posted about that back in 2007, when I started teaching and was thinking about the literacy value in real time strategy building video games. Tons of learning happens while students are playing games: strategic thinking, trial and error experimentation, scientific reasoning, and more. But that’s not going to help you come report card time. So, how can educators use video games in an inquiry-based, student-led way that will help support their literacy skills? Graphic organizers, like webs, are great to kickstart post-game writing activities. 1. 2. Students create diagrams of their planned shelter in Minecraft 3. 4. 5. Liam. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom. As is the nature of sandbox games, players can roam free, choosing objectives as they go. Because Minecraft has such open possibilities and potential, the teacher can choose how he or she wants to use it.

Just as the student has the ability to be creative, the teacher has the same. That can be overwhelming, but luckily, there is a tool for using Minecraft created by teachers for teachers. MinecraftEdu provides a custom mod, basically a customized modification of the game, that helps facilitate organization and focus for teachers to use Minecraft effectively. For those noobs out there that need a push in the right direction, here are some introductory project or lesson ideas. 1) Explore Real Life Buildings There are many already-created structures that you can import into the game and have students explore. 2) Practice Ratio and Proportion 3) Learn About Survival 4) Visualization and Reading Comprehension. SOLVED! -- Hosting an internet Edu server. Hi Eric, hi Minecraft Teachers RE: Hosting a remote server > here is my problem that no one has been able to help me with so far: I have paid to rent a Minecraft server from a site called Mooshroom.net - but they can't figure out how to set up their server with MinecraftEdu instead of just Minecraft.

After spending some time online with my hosts (the awesome Clinton at AllGamer) and a couple of conversations with EduElfie and Kulttuuri we've finally cracked this one. The quick answer is an extra command line option : -Djava.ext.dirs=.. Below is a full walkthrough showing you how you'd do it yourself. Right now I'm running MinecraftEdu 0.98 on a remote server and administering it all via SSH. So far, I've not missed any server functionality (you can control everything but the map in game I believe) -- but all the options are in text files if you do need them. Here is what I did… I'll also add this info to the wiki. The Solution 4) That'll give you a command line/terminal for the server. m.