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New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play

New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play
Like many nine-year-olds, Stanley Strum spends a lot of time building things in Minecraft, the immersive game that lets your create your own mini-universe. The game has many tools. But Stanley is one of many players taking the game a step further by building entirely new features into the game. He’s doing this with a tweak to the Minecraft game, called LearnToMod. Strum is one of 150 students who are now tinkering with LearnToMod, an educational add-on teaches you the basics of programming while creating tricks and tools that you can use within the Minecraft. “Kids are already spending ridiculous amounts of hours on Minecraft,” says Stephen Foster, the co-founder of ThoughtSTEM, the company that’s built the LearnToMod module. ‘Kids are already spending ridiculous amounts of hours on Minecraft. Stanley Strum signed up for the class earlier this year, enticed by the promise of college credit. Stepping Outside of the Virtual Classroom Click to Open Overlay Gallery Go Back to Top. Related:  Minecraft

Use Minecraft to Teach Economics | David Lee EdTech Mike Rugnetta’s video inspired me to think about how Minecraft can be used to teach economics. If you have played Minecraft (adventure mode) before, you would know that the 3D procedurally generated world contains limited resources for you to use to survive. This means that your tools, food and natural resources can be used up. This feature of the game can help illustrate the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Content Standards You might be asking, “What grade could I use Minecraft to teach economics?”. Grade 1: 1.6 Students understand basic economic concepts and the role of individual choice in a free-market economy. 1. 2. 2nd Grade: 2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills. 1. 2. 3. 3rd Grade 3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. 5. Post-Scarcity Economy Like this:

Game about Squares How to Make Your Macbook a WiFi Access Point for Minecraft PE | David Lee EdTech Our Boundaries & Volcano (Minecraft PE) project had been interfered with some inappropriate activity by the students. Students from other classes would join their peers’ Minecraft worlds and destroy their projects. We could have allowed the students to create their volcanos and plate boundaries with Wifi, but that would take away from their ability to research online. So I decided to have the teachers transform their MacBooks into a WiFi access point. Here are the steps you will need to take to do the same thing. 1. 2. 3. Make sure to click on Wi-Fi Options in the bottom corner to create a password for your access point. You are now ready to go! Like this: Like Loading...

Embedded Security CTF Scattered throughout the world in locked warehouses are briefcases filled with Cy Yombinator bearer bonds that could be worth billions comma billions of dollars. You will help steal the briefcases. Cy Yombinator has cleverly protected the warehouses with Lockitall electronic lock devices. Lockitall locks are unlockable with an app. The Lockitall devices work by accepting Bluetooth connections from the Lockitall LockIT Pro app. Using the debugger, you'll be able to single step the lock code, set breakpoints, and examine memory on your own test instance of the lock. Should be a milk run.

The secret of Minecraft — The Message This wouldn’t be enough on its own. Obscure techniques have been a part of video games from the beginning; Nintendo Power surely had a dusting of secret knowledge. What’s different here is that Minecraft connects this lure to the objective not of beating the game, but making more of the game. “Game” doesn’t even do it justice. Five years in, Minecraft (the system) has bloomed into something bigger and more beautiful than any game studio — whether a tiny one like Markus Persson’s or a huge one like EA — could ever produce on its own. Turns out you can do a lot with those blocks. We’re in a new century now, and its hallmark is networked humans doing things together, mostly on screens, at scales unimaginable in earlier times. In the 2010s and beyond, it is not the case that every cultural product ought to be a generative, networked system. It is, I believe, the case that all the really important ones will be. It’s made of blocks, I suppose.

Announcing Starfighter Thomas Ptacek, Erin Ptacek, and I are pleased to announce Starfighter, a company that will publish CTFs (games) that are designed to develop, improve, and assess rare, extremely valuable programming skills. Starfighter CTFs are not fantastic Hollywood-logic depictions of what programming is like. There is no “I built a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the IP address.” You will use real technology. You will build real systems. You will face the real problems faced by the world’s best programmers building the world’s most important pieces of software. You will conquer those problems. We’re not here to fix the technical interview: we’re here to destroy it, and create something new and better in its place. Sound interesting? We’re going to publish a game in the genre often described as “Capture The Flag” (CTF). You will code to play. Our CTF will be totally free for players. We’ve done this before: our founders ran MicroCorruption. You will learn what it is like to see the Matrix.

MinecraftEdu Minecraft in the Classroom Teaches Reading and More Last month, Scientific American declared, "... not only is Minecraft immersive and creative, but it is an excellent platform for making almost any subject area more engaging.” That’s a nod from a top science magazine to the game many parents wish their kids had never heard of. This endorsement follows Common Sense Media's seal of approval. On the surface, it's not so surprising. But Minecraft, a blocky, retro, role-playing simulation that's more Lego than svelte, hi-tech wizardry, isn't just the game du jour. Use these effective classroom management tips to deal with difficult students... Being consistent is of paramount importance when implementing and executing... Tips for how to get a teaching job, including interview questions for teachers... Use these teacher-tested classroom management ideas to help you create a... Teaching strategies to learn this summer that will still leave you time to... Let me back up a moment. That's not Minecraft. There isn't a right or wrong answer.

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