Hello All:
Okay so I just read some amazing news. Now as
gamers we have all heard the never-ending debate on games and its learning
benefits? Also we have all seen the wonderful things that that people can do
with Minecraft. Well imagine having classes in Minecraft? Can you imagine it? Well
believe it.
Undergraduates and professors were left without
the use of their classroom after a cyclone left Australia’s Bond University
closed because they suffered storm damage. Of course students and lecturers
thought that they would not have any classes during the unexpected downtime;
however, they were seriously wrong. One of the professors at this University
had the perfect solution to keep everyone stimulated. His idea - Minecraft of
course!
Professor Jeffery Brand currently runs the
Minecraft Uni Project, where staff and students use Minecraft in order to
continue their studies. Once signed into the game, students can access a pixilated
version of the main campus, and enter classrooms to continue learning. This has
been made possible because of Minecraft’s multiplayer ca[abilities, everyone
can learn and discuss the material with each other, via virtual means of
course.
Professor Brand used Minecraft after discovering
Block by Block, a program that aides players to virtually re-create their
actual neighborhoods for educational purposes. It took Brand and eleven
students around 1 week to build the main campus, the other buildings includes
interior details such as the library.
According to the project’s blog, the recent
Minecraft class functioned in the same way that their classes functioned. The group
essentially operated as if they were in the same classroom environment. Well
there was one change; the waving of TNT replaced the usual hand gestures used
in class. Once the Minecraft classes came to a close, they celebrated with
fireworks.
And there you have it folks. Minecraft is just for
building blocks, it is also an exceptional learning tool. As if we didn't know
that before.
As always – Happy Mining. J
Research Information was taken from this site.
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