Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Tag: Minecraft

  • MinecraftEDU: Minecraft for the Classroom

    After reading the original article by Audrey Watters about a year ago, I read this one with great interest as I was chasing the idea of setting up our own Minecraft server.  It was interesting to read about the details, now if I can just get to affording it. It’s been almost a year since…

  • Reasons To Go Back To Playing Minecraft

      Reprinted from MakeUseOf.  See the full article here. In case you haven’t heard, Minecraft was just officially released. Yes, the game has been available to play for a couple of years, but it was in beta. Now the beta label is gone and the game is considered – well, complete – but if you’ve…

  • Minecraft and The Classroom

    From this article by  Chris O’Brien, How Minecraft is Taking Over The World, comes an overview of Minecraft a link that is a starting point for the discussion about its use in education.  This is going to be a game we are going to play in my classroom when I can research how to use…