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I just came up with this off the top of my head. They have investment, immersion, and meaning. The kids care about what they are learning know. Every single concept above and so, So, SO Much More. Now all of these abstract and uninteresting concepts are real. Where my fourth graders eye’s would normally glass over and quickly lose them after about 15 seconds because… BOOOOORING! I could go on, but I see your eyes glassing over.

Let’s not forget about the sciences, as we explore different biomes, discover new creatures to hunt for food and skins, and the dangers of overhunting and overfishing a region, ecology.įinally in social studies we learn about hard to teach and understand business concepts like supply and demand, market value, and opportunity cost. We would learn about cost and profit, as we do the math to figure out how much money I just made from selling a cart of skins and iron ingots to a bunch of kids in Ms. Did I mention how much coal to smelt the iron? It’s all about processing those numbers, writing formulas, algebraic expression. Then how much iron we need to mine to get all those rails. We plan down to the block, how many of each type of rail we would need to build a railroad from Mr. Then we do the math! Area and perimeter for our house’s and the land we live on.

We have written discussions/conversations about whether we should sign a treaty with Mr.

#Ed minecraft modded servers how to#

We teach others how to do complicated things in the world to other players in informative essays. We write about our adventures using personal narratives. What then? We logoff and we read about the explorers, the colonists, the kings and emperors, the indigenous peoples we meet along the way. We could set up trade routes, moving goods from one city to another, and thus the need to defend them from bandits and attackers in the form of Skellies and Zombies (China’s Silkroad). We could buy/sell/trade goods with different city/classrooms, and over time create global markets. We could conquer, NON-violently!! (conquistadors) Send out small groups to settle in a new parts of the world (Colonization). We can explore and discover new cities (Columbus and the age of exploration). As they build their city each class would learn about government, leadership (elections forming a government, constitution), how to make Laws (Congress), how to build a society (Dawn of civilization). To small? Not big enough? Ok how about this, imagine an entire grade school, class by class, setting up hidden cities all around the world. Can I do this with my mini 30-man classroom laptop server? Yes, but 8 Yankee vs 12 Confederate kids isn’t nearly as effective or impactful as the entire 4 th grade of 150 kids storming & defending the hill together. Suddenly it’s REAL! The kids begin to see it. Now what if we make a hill and ask a group to defend and another group to take it. AKA Higher Ground usually wins (Gettysburg). Imagine the situations and scenarios we could come up with! For example, our 4 th grade studies the Civil War, one of the most difficult concepts we have to teach is how terrain can affect a battle. I can only begin to imagine the things that teachers could do with a huge server. So you asked me, “What specifically would you need in a server platform?” I am so THRILLED you asked! And remember, you did ask. Minecraft EDU Official person! I realized I got gender specific in my previous post, no offence intended.