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EDSUMMIT Minecraft

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Lisa Waxman
Lisa Waxman

MinecraftEDU can be used to support literature in English/Language Arts classes in the following 10 step process: 1) Determine accessibility and support for implementing MinecraftEDU. 2) Establish the learning purpose, such as understanding characters or settings. 3) Have students work in pairs to complete a MinecraftEDU tutorial to evaluate the experience. 4) Create class norms for MinecraftEDU use with students based on the tutorial experience. 5) Have student pairs gather textual evidence about an assigned setting structure as they read. 6) Plan a map of the literary setting and have students start building their assigned structure. 7) Give students time to build structures and place information blocks

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MinecraftEDU for Assessment in ELA Lisa Waxman & Erin Zaich @lasdk8 Twitter @lwaxman
Closing Turn to a neighbor and discuss one way you might be able to use Minecraft to support literature. Post here
Resources 1. Rubric for using MinecraftEDU with The Giver 2. Creating MinecraftEDU Quicktime Video 3. Directions- Minecraft Tutorial 4. MinecraftEDU lesson in ELA day by day 5. MinecraftEdu Wiki
Step 2: Support Accessibility to MinecraftEDU? Find support for implementation if possible
Step 3: Purpose What do you want students to be able to do? Do you want them to understand characters? the setting? The interaction between character and setting?
Step 4: Evaluate Experience Evaluate student experience Assign mixed-ability pairs to complete MinecraftEDU tutorial
Step 5: Establish norms Ask students about tutorial experience What happened? What were the challenges? With students, create a list of class norms and consequences for use of MinecraftEDU
Step 6: Gather Textual Evidence Assign pairs a significant structure from the setting to study closely while reading. As students read, have pairs gather details about the assigned structure (patrons, location, purpose, appearance) using a shared Google Doc.
Prepare to Build Have class sketch out a map of the setting before beginning to build in Minecraft start to create their structure in a MinecraftEDU flat world. Teacher creates a flat world for each class wit one identifiable landmark from the literature that students can recognize.
Step 7: Build Give students time (I used 2 days a week over 4 weeks) to build structures. Students place information blocks on the inside and outside structure to justify their design using evidence from the text.
Step 8: Script Students play the role of a character interacting with the Minecraft environment. Students write a script that includes evidence from the text.
Step 9: Quicktime After rehearsing, each student creates a Quicktime video as the character interacting with the environment. Students are evaluated on the authenticity of their design and character tour compared to the text.
Step 10: Assessment Based upon authenticity of the character & design demonstrated in video Based upon essay (with textual evidence) included in the info blocks Self-assessment Class vote on most authentic world with justification
Info Blocks Students type the justification of their design using info blocks in front of their structures
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EDSUMMIT Minecraft

  • 1. MinecraftEDU for Assessment in ELA Lisa Waxman & Erin Zaich @lasdk8 Twitter @lwaxman
  • 2. Closing Turn to a neighbor and discuss one way you might be able to use Minecraft to support literature. Post here
  • 3. Resources 1. Rubric for using MinecraftEDU with The Giver 2. Creating MinecraftEDU Quicktime Video 3. Directions- Minecraft Tutorial 4. MinecraftEDU lesson in ELA day by day 5. MinecraftEdu Wiki
  • 4. Step 2: Support Accessibility to MinecraftEDU? Find support for implementation if possible
  • 5. Step 3: Purpose What do you want students to be able to do? Do you want them to understand characters? the setting? The interaction between character and setting?
  • 6. Step 4: Evaluate Experience Evaluate student experience Assign mixed-ability pairs to complete MinecraftEDU tutorial
  • 7. Step 5: Establish norms Ask students about tutorial experience What happened? What were the challenges? With students, create a list of class norms and consequences for use of MinecraftEDU
  • 8. Step 6: Gather Textual Evidence Assign pairs a significant structure from the setting to study closely while reading. As students read, have pairs gather details about the assigned structure (patrons, location, purpose, appearance) using a shared Google Doc.
  • 9. Prepare to Build Have class sketch out a map of the setting before beginning to build in Minecraft start to create their structure in a MinecraftEDU flat world. Teacher creates a flat world for each class wit one identifiable landmark from the literature that students can recognize.
  • 10. Step 7: Build Give students time (I used 2 days a week over 4 weeks) to build structures. Students place information blocks on the inside and outside structure to justify their design using evidence from the text.
  • 11. Step 8: Script Students play the role of a character interacting with the Minecraft environment. Students write a script that includes evidence from the text.
  • 12. Step 9: Quicktime After rehearsing, each student creates a Quicktime video as the character interacting with the environment. Students are evaluated on the authenticity of their design and character tour compared to the text.
  • 13. Step 10: Assessment Based upon authenticity of the character & design demonstrated in video Based upon essay (with textual evidence) included in the info blocks Self-assessment Class vote on most authentic world with justification
  • 14. Info Blocks Students type the justification of their design using info blocks in front of their structures