- Module 1: In this module we will explore how Minecraft: Education Edition supports teaching and learning through a game-based interface that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is the learner’s imagination.
- "Explain how Minecraft: Education Edition supports students in collaborating,creating, and thinking critically."
- Identify the benefits of game-based learning when crafting learningexperiences for students.
- "Connect content standards and Minecraft: Education Edition to developinglearning opportunities in the classroom."
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Facilitator
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 2: This module introduces the basics of Minecraft: Education Edition. Start exploring the in-game features to understand and experience game settings, movement, and placing and breaking blocks prior to using Minecraft: Education Edition with your students.
- "Explore the essentials needed to begin using Minecraft: Education Edition,including downloading and signing in to Minecraft: Education Edition."
- Understand game settings that support the new user.
- Customize game skins.
- Move, place, and destroy blocks in a Minecraft flat world.
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 3: This module guides educators in using Minecraft: Education Edition features to help manage their classrooms. These features and settings allow educators to make necessary adjustments to control the game in individual learning environments, and to settings that may be required by a specific lesson, learning objective, or in supporting a student-centered environment.
- Identify key features of world management and classroom settings.
- Use the features files, download, import, and export worlds to support worldmanagement within lessons.
- Share worlds to Teams, Google Classroom, with a URL link.
- Use classroom settings.
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 4: This module explores how Minecraft: Education Edition supports teaching and learning through an interface that allows for assessment and feedback of content knowledge and 21st century skills by educators and students.
- Identify options for sharing in-game worlds with students.
- "Share a Minecraft: Education Edition world to Teams."
- "Create a Minecraft: Education Edition Assignment in Teams."
- Use the in-game features Camera, Portfolio, Book & Quill, Chalkboards, andNPCs as tools for assessment and feedback
- "Reflect on learning goals connected to Minecraft: Education Edition."
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 5: In this module, we will explore how Minecraft: Education Edition supports teaching and learning through an interface that engages students' creativity and strengthens 21st century skills with easy-to-implement activities for the classroom.
- Bring student creativity to the classroom by using the Classroom BuildChallenge.
- "Build and create in Minecraft: Education Edition to meet a learning goal andcomplete a challenge task."
- Educator - Designer
- Educator - Facilitator
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 6: This module is designed to guide educators to experience how Minecraft: Education Edition supports standards aligned learning and provides in-game lesson plans and worlds to get started. These lesson plans can be used to provide ideas on how Minecraft: Education Edition can support specific learning outcomes. They can also be modified and adjusted to ensure relevancy to your learners in ways that might not otherwise be possible.
- "Examine standards-aligned lessons and how Minecraft: Education Editionsupports application within content."
- Open, navigate, and create in a world connected to content.
- Apply visual, spatial, and logical thinking to show understanding of thelesson learning objectives.
- "Locate and experience a lesson that allows learners to articulate and showtheir understanding through Minecraft: Education Edition using authenticstudent agency."
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 7: Minecraft: Education Edition encourages communication, creativity, and collaboration both on and offline. Collaborative Gameplay allows groups to be immersed in the virtual world of Minecraft: Education Edition while collaboratively planning and constructing. In this module, we will explore the power of multiplayer lessons and activities with Minecraft: Education Edition.
- Set up and join a multiplayer world.
- Understand planning and building in a Minecraft world.
- Apply 21st century skills to Minecraft allowing for collaboration, creativity,and communication.
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 8: In this module, participants are introduced to the process of building a structure for using Minecraft: Education Edition within their learning environments and with their students.
- "Explore best practices in applying Minecraft: Education Edition to theirlearning environment."
- Understand what is involved in pre-planning with IT departments for successfulimplementation.
- "Set up student access for a smooth launch with Minecraft: Education Editionin the classroom."
- "Understand and implement the first lesson: Creative exploration withMinecraft: Education Edition."
- "Understand and implement the second lesson, Digital citizenship withMinecraft: Education Edition."
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 9: Minecraft: Education Edition encourages communication, creativity, and collaboration on and offline. This module is designed to teach participants about Minecraft’s computer science applications for all ages including Code Builder, Hour of Code and Computer Science Resources.
- "Explain how to move between Minecraft: Education Edition and Code Builder."
- "Complete selected tutorial activities to explore understanding of coding inMinecraft: Education Edition."
- Manipulate your own code to create/modify a unique result in any one of theAgent coding activities.
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 10: This module is designed to guide educators to better understand the Chemistry and Science functionality in Minecraft: Education Edition and how the game supports inquiry and curiosity for all students.
- Use the Element Constructor to build as many as 118 elements from the PeriodicTable based on the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in each element.
- Use the Compound Creator to combine elements into as many as 30 compounds andthen use the Lab Table to create additional Minecraft items.
- Reduce blocks to their component elements with the Material Reducer.
- Use the provided Educator Lab book as a guide to the chemistry craftingexercises.
- "Locate and download additional chemistry (and related) science lessons fromthe Minecraft: Education Edition site."
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Module 11: Redstone connects you to engineering practices students use in Minecraft. Explore what redstone is, see examples of classroom use, and practice with an in-game tutorial.
- "Explain the basics of redstone in Minecraft: Education Edition."
- "Use redstone in a lesson in Minecraft: Education Edition."
- Complete an in-game redstone tutorial.
- Educator - Facilitator
- Educator - Leader
- Leaders - Empowering Leader
- Curriculum and Assessment
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Professional Learning
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