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Minecraft CTE City - CTE Pathway Integration through Interactive Gameplay

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 116

Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab

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Presenters

Garrett Main

Teacher on Special Assignment

Fresno Unified School District
@GarrettMain

As an experienced educator with over a decade of teaching experience, Garrett is passionate about empowering students to reach their full potential. He holds a master's degree in education administration and has worked with students of all ages and backgrounds, and grade levels. In addition to his work in the classroom, Garrett is also a Global Minecraft Mentor and currently on the Minecraft Education Advisory Board. His expertise includes Career Technical education, literacy development, and social-emotional learning using Minecraft Education. Garrett is excited to share his knowledge and insights with fellow educators and to collaborate with them to improve student outcomes for all students.

Julie Mavrogeorge

Owner/President

Jdogmav Consulting / CA Esports Assoc.
@jdogmav
@jdogmav

Esports is my passion! I am a CTE Coordinator for Fresno Unified as well as an Ambassador for Generation Esports, Gameplan, and Drone Legends. I contract as a Professional Learning Specialist for i2e and Educating Collaborators. I am a MIE Expert and worldwide Minecraft Esports Teacher Academy Trainer. I have been featured on CDW’s Focus on EDU, and ISTE Edge Podcast and have presented on all facets of esports and program development at FETC, TCEA, ISTE, and NAECAD. I am a Women in Games International (WIGI) mentor and the 2022 NAECAD High School Esports Director of the Year.

Session description

Minecraft CTE City integrates Career Technical Education Pathways across all learning areas including Manufacturing, Agriculture, Technology, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Hospitality & Tourism, Business, and more. Participants will learn how to incorporate existing CTE Pathways, ISTE standards, and use of critical thinking, literary, mathematic, and scientific knowledge to explore and complete tasks.

Purpose & objective

The purpose of Minecraft (Career Technical Education) CTE City is to introduce and grow the understanding of individual districts' existing CTE pathways and provide an interactive, all-inclusive environment for K-12 students to explore available industry sectors and connect to those opportunities both locally and globally.

Creating a K-12 pipeline for college and career readiness is a desire of educators across the nation. Minecraft CTE City can be downloaded, shared, and replicated by educators to be customized by every educator for their district's specific needs and outcomes.

Minecraft is accessible on every device from PCs to Chromebooks, and now cell phones, making this world accessible to all. Additional pathways will continue to be integrated with the addition of epsorts build challenges and player-vs-player arenas as well as further development of competitive gameplay with embedded interactive challenges in each industry sector.

As a Microsoft Innovative Education Expert, Minecraft Certified Educator and Mentor, a contributor to the creation of Minecraft Esports Toolkit, Minecraft Esports Competition Guide, and a Minecraft Esports Academy Expert, I know the value of esports in both the classroom and in an after school program, for use as an educational explorative tool. I have created and fostered an explorative environment that serves as a motivator for competitive and investigative research in developing student interest and enthusiasm across a variety of educational areas including literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, social/emotional learning, career exploration, and development of overall digital literacy, communication, collaboration, and creativity.

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Outline

Minecraft CTE City
Description and Purpose- 45 mins
1. Overview of the world
2. Exploration of each pathway
3. Purpose of NPCs
A. Tasks and Challenges
4. Introduction to embedded game
Overview of Amulet for Adding Created World Elements - 30 mins
Host world for attendees to join - 60 mins
1. Participants explore the world's CTE Pathways
A. Guided Instruction
B. Freeplay Exploration

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Supporting research

Minecraft Esports - https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/resources/stem-esports-challenges

Minecraft Competition Guide - https://meedownloads.blob.core.windows.net/learning-experience/eSports/Minecraft%20Esports%20School%20Competition%20Guide%20Updated.pdf

Minecraft Esports Toolkit - https://meedownloads.blob.core.windows.net/learning-experience/eSports/Minecraft%20Esports%20Club%20Toolkit%20updated.pdf

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Session specifications

Topic:

Games for learning & gamification

Grade level:

PK-12

Skill level:

Intermediate

Audience:

Coaches, Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

Participants should bring their laptops and device chargers with the latest version of Minecraft downloaded to their devices. We will share the world for use and also host the world for others to join the presenters for a fully interactive and immersive experience.

Minecraft Download - https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/get-started/download

Subject area:

Career and technical education, STEM/STEAM

ISTE Standards:

For Educators:
Facilitator

Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.

For Students:
Empowered Learner

Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.

Computational Thinker

Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

Minecraft CTE City - CTE Pathway Integration through Interactive Gameplay

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 116

Presenters

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