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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

Digital Literacy While players in a school environment can turn to each other for assistance and support, they may also visit the numerous Minecraft-dedicated wikis, blogs or YouTube channels for inspiration.

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

We talked for instance about how technology would streamline assessment, and how the curriculum might be impacted by new technologies. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future.

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

We talked for instance about how technology would streamline assessment, and how the curriculum might be impacted by new technologies. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future.

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10Q: Helen Keegan

Learning with 'e's

It was completely informal, un-assessed, and gave me the opportunity to explore a range of disciplines (music, computing, writing, performing) and learn with a group of friends. It was a major influence on my beliefs with regards to interdisciplinarity, grassroots education and informal learning.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - ISTE Unplugged + Hack Education - AERO - Gaming in Ed Call for Proposals - Students Driving Change

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] Introduction to Mind Amplifiers June 11 - July 10, 2014: A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. See how they identified the goals of the game and what went into the development and evaluation of teaching resources. Join the webinar here.

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Getting Started with Minecraft in the Classroom

Graphite Blog

Students are not actually interacting with the game. Does not assess Level 3 and 4 DoK skills. Gaming lessons In gaming lessons, students are building and designing in Minecraft while the teacher acts as a floater, providing guidance when necessary. Great way to develop Level 1 and 2 Depth of Knowledge (DoK) skills.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Whether my class is uploading their Scratch video games, or linking to their website efolios, we post our group work on the class wiki. Tip: See the sandbox lesson plan and rubric I use to introduce wikis to my class. For this reason, it is likely more important that kids learn to program apps than make web pages. .

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