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Switching to MinecraftEdu
The 2 weeks before March break I decided to try out MinecraftEdu with my class and Minecraft club. I have nine Minecraft accounts and that limits the number of students…
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Perseverance in the Face of Technology
Perseverance is: "a steady persistence in a course of especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles or discouragement" (). We try and scaffold our students' learning so that they develop this character trait, along…
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Some Minecraft FRACTAL fun!
Minecraft and Fractals By: Zoe Branigan-Pipe We are all familiar with Math Manipulatives and the power of hands-on learning. Minecraft allows students to explore, create, design and problem solve in…
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Minecraft Students are evolving. They’ll pwn teachers (and servers). And that’s awesome.
"You'll never know more than your students. And that's okay." I find myself saying that a lot to teachers looking to bring Minecraft into their classrooms. Any adult who's been…
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Design Thinking ~ Make Urban ReDevelopment a Reality in Minecraft
Design Thinking ~ Make Urban ReDevelopment a Reality in Minecraft Author: Zoe Branigan-Pipe The purpose of this lesson is to inspire and engage students to use creative and critical thinking…
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Design Thinking with Minecraft and Lego – Sample Lesson
This lesson was facilitated with Grade Five Gifted Students. This is an example of how to combine a variety of collaborative tools (Collaborative thinking/planning, Blog, Doc, Minecraft) with a hands-on…
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Thinking through Redstone…
Thinking through Redstone Author: Zoe Branigan-Pipe My son compares Redstone in Minecraft to Electricity in the "Real World". He explains, that this wire like application has endless possibilities when it…
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Mind Shift and Grownup Glee
On January 10, 2014, I had the great opportunity to visit a local school to help a colleague and friend launch Minecraft with her class. I was excited but had…
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Minecraft Interest Rises – Good or Not?
This post first appeared on on November 25, 2013. Another busy November weekend has passed and an equally intense week is upon me. While I attended the Ontario School Library…
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Messy Learning with Minecraft
Morning Minecraft crew ready to dig (This post originally appeared on the Feeding Change blog in 2011.) It's barely 9:15 in the morning and already two students have fallen down…