Minecraft for Education
MinecraftEdu offers templates and mods that are specifically designed for education. Settings on Minecraft Edu and/or our own server have provided greater security and flexibility for our teachers to set specific permissions, design learning experiences and safe environment for creativity to flourish!
Below are some video examples of how Minecraft can be used in an educational setting.
Our learning tasks can include
You get the idea!
Our learning tasks can include
- creating communities with buildings that comply to particular specifications and dimensions
- creating functional features such as fences using algebraic formulas
- calculating the area/volume/length of specific structures
- creating text, signs and directions within the game
- communicating via the on screen text function
- creating an explanation/procedure for specific tasks e.g. How to make a ....
- giving oral, written or pictorial instructions to teacher/peers or other audience on how to complete a task e.g how to make a chair
- using mathematical, scientific and technical language to explain processes and procedures e.g. how to make obsidian, how to make an electrical circuit
- collaboration and problem solving: how to reverse engineer a procedure, how to fix a broken circuit, how to divide a complex task into manageable chunks with everyone taking on a valuable role.
You get the idea!
