Immersive Learning With Minecraft: Education Edition

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Explore and create : Playground

This is presentation 1 of 3, at station "MIE Playground Station 4" within the playground "Student Choice and Voice Navigating Our Roadmap to the Future"; scroll down to see more details.

Other presentations in this group:

Presentation 2: Flip for FlipGrid
Presentation 3: Using SharePoint and Office 365 to Create Digital Portfolios

Jennifer Brown
Randy Hawkins
Minecraft: Education Edition fully immerses students in their learning. It offers open-ended, student-led lessons that result in complete engagement and deeper learning. Come see the multitude of ways you can use Minecraft: Education Edition in your classroom and where you can find all the resources to get started.

Audience:	Curriculum/district specialists, Library media specialists, Teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Topic:	Games for learning & gamification
Grade level:	PK-12
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Designer Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this short session is to show examples of how Minecraft: Education Edition works in the classroom and show the participants where they can find the resources to get started.

Outline

We will talk about the why of Minecraft: Education Edition (5 min)
Examples (5 min)
Resources (5 min)
Q&A and challenge (5 min)
The challenge will be for them to find a lesson plan on the Minecraft: Education Edition site and tweet about it. We will pick a winner of some swag.

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Presenters

Jennifer Brown, NCCE

Jennifer Brown is a Computer Science Teacher and Business Technology Teacher at Walker Middle Magnet, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Trainer, and a Skype Master Teacher. As a NCCE Professional Learning Specialists, she is dedicated to showing teachers how to best utilize technology in their classrooms. Similarly, as a classroom teacher she demonstrates to her students how utilizing technology can empower their learning. Jennifer is passionate about showing students how to be self-directed, life-long learners and how technology can be used to achieve that goal.

Randy Hawkins, Westada School District