This chart depicts the positive and negative aspects of Minecraft as well as the opportunities and threats involved. Below are four ways to incorporate Minecraft in the classroom setting. Go to https://minecraft.net to explore further.
Here are four ways Minecraft could be used in the academic setting:
1. Explore Actual Buildings. There are many three-dimensional replications of structures that you can import into the game for students’ exploration, such as the Roman Coliseum and the Globe Theater.
2. Practice Ratio and Proportion. A math teacher can use Minecraft to reinforce lessons on measurements and proportions as it allows students to construct scale models.
3. Learn about Survival. Students must take into account resources, gather food, utilize tools, collect resources. Players are required to process what they find, such as smelting ore to create metal. Minecraft promote a basic understanding of how things work, and help them analyze the different components of survival and settlement.
4. Minecraft improves visualization and reading comprehension. Students can demonstrate their reading comprehension by visualizing and reconstructing various settings from the text, recreating scenes and plot events. They could also use these re-creations to give a presentation or make predictions and then physically create those predictions in Minecraft.
Reference
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/minecraft-in-classroom-andrew-miller viewed 4/9/14
1. Explore Actual Buildings. There are many three-dimensional replications of structures that you can import into the game for students’ exploration, such as the Roman Coliseum and the Globe Theater.
2. Practice Ratio and Proportion. A math teacher can use Minecraft to reinforce lessons on measurements and proportions as it allows students to construct scale models.
3. Learn about Survival. Students must take into account resources, gather food, utilize tools, collect resources. Players are required to process what they find, such as smelting ore to create metal. Minecraft promote a basic understanding of how things work, and help them analyze the different components of survival and settlement.
4. Minecraft improves visualization and reading comprehension. Students can demonstrate their reading comprehension by visualizing and reconstructing various settings from the text, recreating scenes and plot events. They could also use these re-creations to give a presentation or make predictions and then physically create those predictions in Minecraft.
Reference
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/minecraft-in-classroom-andrew-miller viewed 4/9/14