I have been playing Minecraft for many years. I instantly fell in love with the game. It has the retro feel that I love since I grew up in the 70s and 80s immersed in computers and technology. As a … Continue reading Minecraft. Because Why Not. Teachers, Let’s Goooooooo
Minefaire is a celebration and an opportunity. If you don’t know what it is, Minefaire is a roaming Minecraft convention that brings together creators and educators and players of all ages. It is a remarkable event that should be on … Continue reading Minefaire Is For You
On 09/17/19, I will participate as a host in a global Twitter chat regarding Teaching and Learning with Minecraft. I appreciate this opportunity, and I thank Microsoft and TweetMeet for extending it. Minecraft as an educational tool sparks my imagination … Continue reading Minecraft Education Tweet Meet
We have some new friends in the Minecraft Oceans. The expansion of the game has opened some new possibilities to imagine and explore the ocean that is a desert with its life underground, as the song goes. I have just … Continue reading Minecraft Education Ocean Adventure
Thanks to @mgrundel and @PBJellyGames, I was recently the host of a Twitter chat on the #MinecraftEdu hashtag. I wanted to discuss what might happen if educators create a school that uses Minecraft as its main creation tool. I was … Continue reading Minecraft, could it be a school?
Disrupt the traditional reality of schools and education by augmenting it. Technology use in education can certainly speed up our use of paper. However, that use maintains things as they are. Why are we “inventing new gadgets to teach the … Continue reading Augmented Reality could DISRUPT Reality
