The document discusses the educational potential of Minecraft, highlighting its role in collaborative learning and digital citizenship. It emphasizes how the game encourages creativity and innovation among students while providing various platforms for learning. Additionally, it includes resources and examples of using Minecraft for language learning and effective game-based education.

1. Mining Our Learning
Minecraft & Game Based Learning
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Minecraft is a game about
breaking and placing
blocks. At first, people
built structures to protect
against nocturnal
monsters, but as the
game grew players
worked together to create
wonderful, imaginative
things.
- Minecraft.net

3. It can also be about
adventuring with
friends or watching
the sun rise over a
blocky ocean.
- Minecraft.net
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4. What content &
skills can students
learn with
Minecraft?

5. Minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_in_education

6. Why Minecraft?
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7. Why Minecraft?
Collaborative learning
Mission oriented
Beyond classroom walls
CLIL
Gives a context
Hands-on
Motivational
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8. Students learn
digital
citizenship
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9. 9 year-old Filip
Smolcec taught
me about
Minecraft!
Ogulin, Croatia 2013

10. Filip Smolcec’s Youtube Channel- Youtube.com/snakegaming12

11. Filip Smolcec’s Online Presentation
Futureofeducation.com/page/recordings-2014

12. PC/MAC
XBox Playstation
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iOS
Android
Platforms $$

13. Gets students
to be creative
& innovative
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14. How Videogames Changed the World
Youtu.be/9xAIpVxL3HU

15. Geekwire.com/2014/minecraft-education-strategy

16. Minecraft.gamepedia.com

17. Students can
create a
collaborative
visual glossary

18. Examples of
Minecraft for
language learning

19. Eltsandbox.weebly.com
@DaveDodgson

20. Pinterest.com/eltsandbox/minecraft-and-language-learning

21. Duncanbilingual.blogspot.com/2013/09/
minecrafting-our-learning-space.html

22. More
Minecraft
resources
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23. Minemum.com/minecraft-educational

24. Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/minecraft-edu/id12593241

25. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/beyond-minecraft-games-that-inspire-
building-and-exploration/

26. How can we
tell if a game is
effective for
learning?

27. Slideshare.net/santaana1/online-game-
rubric-3285269

28. Slideshare.net/santaana1/online-game-
rubric-3285269

29. Game Based Learning- Pear.ly/cd1wj

30. Photo by Janus Sandsgaard, Flic.kr/p/nRURh8
As astronauts and space
travelers children puzzle
over the future; as
dinosaurs and princesses
they unearth the past … as
monsters and gremlins they
make sense of the unreal.
- Gretchen Owocki

31. Gum.co/learn2go
Amazon.com/Shelly-Sanchez-Terrell/e/B00L2Q8CV0
ShellyTerrell.com/webinars Twitter.com/ShellTerrell
Facebook.com/ShellyTerrell Google.com/+ShellySanchezTerrell