Teaching and Learning with Minecraft: Liam O’Donnell | DMLcentral
Playing with blocks certainly predates constructionist theories of learning by playing with “tangible manipulatives,” but the culturally universal practice is probably as old as human social learning. What is new is the ability to use simulated blocks to teach comparative religion by enabling students to construct navigable models of famous houses of worship. Or explore biology by assembling giant DNA molecules, or manifest millions of blocks by performing the proper calculations and applying appropriate logical operations. If you didn’t know what it is about, you might – as I did – conflate the popular “sandbox” game “Minecraft” with the popular online adventure game, “World of Warcraft.” Players can fight monsters, but nothing in the environment compels any one kind of play. Some of the first signals I detected came from my friends at Ryerson University’s Edgelab. Teaching and Learning with Minecraft: Liam O'Donnell from DML Research Hub on Vimeo.
Minecraft Zombie- Color by Number - Coloring Squared
Click on the image to view the PDF. Print the PDF to use the worksheet. Minecraft Zombie- Color by Number Use basic counting skills and the key at the bottom of the page to create a fun Minecraft Zombie picture. Suggested Grade Level Kindergarten Common Core StandardsKindergarten Known number names and the count sequence Count to 100 by ones and by tens. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
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Learning from Minecraft
Image above by Karen James, Ethan and Nick, in October 2012 Text below by Connie Coyle, in April 2012 This post is brought to you by the word queef. Now that I have your attention, I will let you know that this post will actually be dedicated to parsing out all of the learning that happens while my daughters are playing Minecraft. We have become a rather avid crafting family as all of us now have Minecraft (with the exception of our three year old) and we have our own server too. What I am going to do in this post is spell out a lot of the things that we are learning from Minecraft. There is a back story to why this post exists so I will start by sharing that first. Backstory: The back story behind all this is that my daughter's best friend is also an avid Minecraft player. Anyway, the other night,we had a silly sign making session. After thinking about it, I realized that it is totally possible to share what they are learning in a homeschool portfolio. Minecraft Learning Good citizenship:
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A server.properties file opened with Notepad++ server.properties is the file which stores all the settings for a multiplayer (Minecraft or Minecraft Classic) server. If you are going to edit server.properties it is important that you use the same structure as the original uses, although the order of the lines is arbitrary. The text before the equal sign is the key, which you shouldn't change. After changes are made to the server.properties file, the server must be restarted for them to take effect. If the server.properties file does not list all properties (such as if a new version of the server adds new properties, or if the file does not exist), then on startup the server will rewrite the server.properties file with the new properties listed and set them to their default values. File Location This file is automatically generated upon first start of the server (if it doesn't exist). Server.properties As of 1.8.1, these are the default settings for a newly installed Minecraft server:
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Hey, Parents. What Minecraft Is Doing to Your Kids Is Kind of Surprising.
The point of Minecraft seems simple: build practically anything you can imagine. Some kids recreate famous pieces of architecture, others express their creativity through grand designs. Since 2009, Minecraft has sold over 20 million copies. And if that seems like a typical blockbuster, don’t be fooled — it isn’t. Graphics are boxy and blurry, and sounds are primitive at best. So why do kids obsess over it? I gather a handful of 5-to-13-year-olds. First, some basics about the game. Players begin on any number of randomly-generated terrains — square blocks that make up deserts, mountains, prairie and even clouds. When night falls, mobs of monsters — spiders, zombies and skeletons — chase them with a single-minded purpose. Minecraft is an open-ended “sandbox” that doesn’t come with instructions, so the gameplay is confusing — but that’s what makes it irresistible. John tells me he tries “new moves to learn new things.” It’s all a blur to me. But Minecraft has potential pitfalls, too.
