Friday 12 September 2014

Here is my moment!

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  1. Hi Ben,

    I'm really really interested in using Minecraft particularly as a focus of a computer club. I'm not entirely sure yet how I would go about setting it up, but maybe if your not too busy you could give me some pointers :)

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    1. I will, I need to look at setting it up, but I'll blog about it!

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  2. I need to pick your brains too. I still don't think that I appreciate the benefits that gaming can bring to the classroom.

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  3. Love this idea! How cool would that be ... to use a game, such as Minecraft, to engage the pupils - especially powerful at KS3!
    Let me know how it goes... I'd love to do something like this in English! =]

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  4. Hi Ben, I think you have generated such a buzz that you need to host a dual Minecraft/Beekeeping event. I'm interested in your ideas about using Minecraft in the classroom and would welcome some pointers.

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    1. Thanks Ian, maybe we could mod Minecraft, so that users can keep bees!

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  5. Stephen Howell- @saorog on twitter runs lots of 'coding dojo's' with teens and wrote the Scratch computing language- he's a good one to follow if you don't already- whole network there of using gaming esp Minecraft in education.

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    1. Great thanks Anthony, I don't follow him, but I will be now!

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  6. page 38 in this is good too- overview of gamification in education from the Horizon report
    http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf

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  7. Exciting ideas here, Ben! I wonder if anybody has surveyed their pupils to establish how many play minecraft (and other games with educational potential)?

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  8. Exactly, we must be confident and open to learning in all its forms, and not to be dismissive of things we perhaps don't understand or haven't experience.

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