• First Grade Teacher Teaching First Graders with... wait for it... Minecraft.
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[quote=Kotaku]When his five-year-old daughter built a treehouse by herself in Minecraft, Joel Levin, a computer teacher at Manhattan's Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, got the idea to try incorporating the PC game into his lesson plan at school. He worried about numerous possibilities that the game would simply be incompatible with students that young, but he was relieved and gratified to discover he was wrong. "From day one, the kids are all playing together in a single world," Levin [URL="http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/"]told Ars Technica[/URL]. "They must share resources, take turns, work together, and, frankly, be nice to each other. This is usually the first time these kids have had to think about these concepts in a game, but it goes hand in hand with the big picture stuff they are learning in their homerooms." The lesson is strongly supported within the school and is very popular. It'll continue with four new groups of students this term, and an after-school class will be added. Levin is also maintaining a blog - [URL="http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/"]The Minecraft Teacher[/URL] - documenting the game's use in his classroom.[/quote] The only thing you can possibly teach someone that young with Minecraft is that no matter what you build or do, there's going to be an armless, green, four legged [I]thing [/I]there to blow it up along with you. :v: [URL="http://kotaku.com/#%215788418/teaching-first+graders-with-minecraft"]Sauce[/URL] [url=http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/]Minecraft Teacher @ Tumblr[/url] [U][B]Edit:[/B][/U] Source also linked me to an awesome t-shirt site selling an awesome Deadpool T-shirt. :v:
Have them build a CPU out of redstone logic.
FPers in the making
They're going to become little arsonists.
That's so cool! If only we could do that but with a Grade 11 curriculum... Computer programming in redstone (r++) anyone?
First graders will be punching trees in no time.
[QUOTE=JDK721;28976978]Autistics in the making[/QUOTE] Fixed. [U][B]Edit:[/B][/U] Kinda.[U][B] Edit: [/B][/U] I'm going to Hell. :suicide:
Minecraft is a game developed for first-graders, IMHO. [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] I mean, it's perfect for them
Link to the actual blog. Kotaku has a horrible layout. [url]http://minecraftteacher.tumblr.com/[/url]
Now wait until the person running their computer lab destroys everything one night.
Autism Joke.
Awesome. It should have more complicated systems they integrate themselves in, with harder decisions and suicide isn't a way out.
Awesome. It should have more complicated systems they integrate themselves in, with harder decisions and suicide isn't a way out.
I bet eventually, the teacher is going to give the kids a warning that it's gonna get a lot harder, and then set it to hard to see how well they do. Creeper related nightmares ahoy!
[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;28977021]Now wait until the person running their computer lab destroys everything one night.[/QUOTE] FUCKING LAVA
Minecraft: More fun, more conductive to cooperation, [b]AND[/b] more educational than a majority of classes at school.
A great advancement for Video Games. Now all they need is Garry's Mod too be intergrated for Lua Courses.
Tears will be shed once one of the kids discovers how to make flint and steel.
At least it's 30 or so less griefers. /optimism
Turn off peacefull and watch the tears flow
so are they playing on peaceful or actually going with easy normal hard or whatever
Wait until the teacher is digging around and finds an underground room with like burning crosses made out of netherrack and trapped pigs and shit
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;28977248]A great advancement for Video Games. Now all they need is Garry's Mod too be intergrated for Lua Courses.[/QUOTE] Yep, and learn how to scream at eachother for messing up their builds.
It seems a lot of people in this thread are missing the point of what the teacher is doing. He's not trying to make them better at video games, nor teach them how to make CPUs or other complex devices in it, he's teaching them how to work together. It's like those teambuilding exercises companies pay thousands to attend, only for a much younger audience. Minecraft also offers greater equality, seeing as everyone can do anything they'd like in Minecraft, unlike very physical activities that most teambuilding events include. This is great for fostering creativity, developing social skills (which is incredibly important since they'll all develop Autism), teamwork, etcetera.
I think I missed something, can someone explain the autism joke thing?
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;28977803]I think I missed something, can someone explain the autism joke thing?[/QUOTE] I don't know where it started but its along the line "OH this game is stupid" 5 Hours later "MUST MAKE CASTLE" It is a really stupid as hell joke that doesn't actually make sense. But what else is new.
Let's break into their server and give their wood buildings some free lava to help
Let's not be assholes for once?
This is the best teacher ever.
[b]MEANWHILE, IN MR. LEVIN'S SERVER...[/b] [img]http://rivertonradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/forest-fire.jpg[/img]
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