Minecraft School

cherryghost

So, apparently in some schools they have Minecraft as part of the school curriculum :pac:

Minecraft Class is happening at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on the Upper West Side of New York City. It's really just computer class for the school's second-graders. And the so-called Minecraft Teacher is the unassuming Joel Levin, who cooked up the wild idea of taking the open-ended game and turning it into a learning space for his students. I'd seen Civilization being taught in classrooms before. That was fine. It teaches civics, sort of. But this was more like giving kids a three-dimensional canvas that they could turn into a shared world, one they had to learn how to live in happily together.

On the Wednesday that we attended, Levin taught two groups of second-graders, about a dozen kids per class and then an after-school session that included fourth-graders and an eighth-grader who served as an assistant teacher. They play on a server set up by Levin, one whose world he's tweaked for the kids: no monsters (one little girl in the class cheered about that), perpetual daytime. He let his kids explore structures he'd made and, later during our visit, began teaching them to build.

Video and more is here
http://kotaku.com/5803138/we-took-a-field-trip-to-the-minecraft-school

Lucky feckers!

DirtyBollox

best part is that he's teaching them to not grief :pac:

killerhitman

i do kind of play minecraft in school but thats just during TG when the teacher isn't looking

wires

good idea, teaches spacial awareness and the ability to visualise and assemble 3d objects mentally as well as the whole social aspect. it is the biggest lego set you'll ever own

gavmcg92

Engineers of the future