• 5 MIE (STEM) Educators met in Microsoft Sydney
– Teachers are from New South Wales, South Australia,
New Zealand
• Aim:
– To create a Transformation Project
• Transformation Project Objective:
– To create a learning environment where students from
Australia and New Zealand could collaborate and learn
21st Century learning skills
Students from geographically remote schools
collaborate and construct technical creations in
Minecraft as a learning platform
www.mineclass.org
• How to collaborate and communicate on web
based projects with global colleagues
• How to self-direct their learning in a games-
based environment
• How to employ computational thinking to
build functioning machines in Minecraft
• Students plan, design and collaboratively create
structures and functioning machines in Minecraft.
• Students learn how to communicate and collaborate
effectively in web based projects.
• Students have real global audiences for their creations.
• Students run virtual excursions for
other schools in their Minecraft world
creations.
• Identified students have control over the
levels of other players
• Ability to upload and install mods
• Code using Python, Scratch & more
Australia
• Rooty Hill High School, NSW
• St Columba Anglican School, NSW
• Seymour College, South Australia
New Zealand
• Hale School
• Te Arora College
Our Blog - http://callaghan-minecraft.blogspot.com.au/
• https://sites.google.com/site/minecraftrhhs/
• Minecraft 4 Me is an initiative by Rooty Hill High
School as part of our ICT4Me BYOD program.
• Introducing gaming has enabled us to provide more
opportunities for students in attempting and
developing specialised ICT skills.
• Minecraft 4 Me is targeted at
students of diverse
backgrounds, academic and
technical ability levels.
• Each member bring unique experiences and lessons
to the team enabling in the team to be able to
continuously collaborate to enhance the benefits of
the game.
• All members of Minecraft 4 Me are currently accessing
Minecraft daily and Skype at least 2 nights a week.
• This is a student led program and the role of the
educator in Minecraft 4 Me is to facilitate and assist
students (and teachers) as needed
• Minecraft is PART of the experience. Students must use
other tools to support their learning
• Supports Cross KLA programs
• Used in
– Technology,
– TAS (Technical and Applied Sciences),
– Science,
– HSIE (Human Society and Its Environment)
• To expand digital curriculum to include gaming
• To include Minecraft in all KLA’s
• To expose students in our local area to use
gaming as an extra curricular activity
• To keep having fun!