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Spark Your Creativity Through Game-Based Learning With Minecraft Education

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 115A

Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab

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Presenters

Jamie Galgana

Specialist, Instructional Leadership

LAUSD, Instructional Tech Initiative
@MissG_LAUSD

Jamie is a Specialist with the Instructional Technology Initiative and Division of Instruction at Los Angeles Unified School District. She supports the district in leveraging digital resources for student success through various models of support, including working with Practitioner Schools, supporting Professional Development, and assisting with Signature Events. Jamie was an elementary teacher for 10 years, an EdTech Coach for 2.5 years, and is currently an Administrator. Jamie has a masters in Elementary Mathematics and an Administrative Services Credential. She’s an ISTE Certified Trainer, Google Certified Trainer, Microsoft Innovative Educator, Common Sense Certified Educator and Ambassador, and a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.

Allison Jonas

Readiness and Integration Coordinator

Los Angeles Unified School District
@JonasLAUSD

Ms. Allison Jonas currently serves as an Readiness and Integration Coordinator for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Ms. Jonas has over 20 years of teaching experience and a strong commitment to student growth, development, and academic success. Her expertise rests in providing Instructional Technology leadership, including visioning, strategic planning, goal-setting, curricular innovation, program evaluation, problem-solving, and utilizing management theory and practice.

MARIA TOLEDO

Coordinator, Accounting & Disbursements

Los Angeles Unified School District
@MMToledoLAUSD

Maria Magnanimo-Toledo is a Specialist, Readiness & Integration, with the Instructional Technology Initiative of Los Angeles Unified. She is passionate about providing quality adult learning experiences and enjoys facilitating learning for educators which leverage digital resources. She is an accomplished educator and champion for equity and access in serving a wide variety of students. Maria is a National Board Certified Teacher, trilingual, 1st generation American, and 1st in her family to graduate from college. Maria has held a variety of positions such as Instructional Coach, Mentor Teacher, Intervention Coordinator, Title 1 Coordinator, and classroom teacher in grades K-8.

Session description

Learners will be introduced to Minecraft: Education, a game-based learning platform building C+STEM skills, unleashing creativity and engaging students in collaboration and problem-solving. Participants will create builds within Minecraft: Education and identify ways Minecraft and CS concepts can be brought into the classroom.

Purpose & objective

By the end of this session, participants will be able to do basic navigation and builds within the Minecraft Education worlds and identify ways that Minecraft Education and CS concepts can be brought into their classrooms and learning environments. Participants will take a shared text and respond to a prompt as a design challenge in the Minecraft application, utilizing
special educational tools. There will be an opportunity to browse some of the existing lessons offered by Minecraft Education and start the planning process of how to bring this back to the educator's site. Facilitators will walk participants through their professional learning plan to expand computer science district-wide with game-based learning as one entry point. Not only will we celebrate the success of the learners in the session, but also share evidence of success with this learning for educators who have taken our professional learning around game-based learning.

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Outline

10 minutes - Welcome & Introductions
30 minutes - Grounding Activities: Introduction to Minecraft Education
40 minutes - Exploration - Build a World, Teaching Resources
10 minutes - Closing & Reflection - Celebrations, Next Steps

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Supporting research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ7AcvbebKo&themeRefresh=1

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Session specifications

Topic:

Games for learning & gamification

Grade level:

PK-12

Skill level:

Intermediate

Audience:

Coaches, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: iOS, Windows

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

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

Laptop charger and Mouse highly recommended.

Subject area:

Language arts, Math

ISTE Standards:

For Coaches:
Professional Learning Facilitator

Build the capacity of educators, leaders and instructional teams to put the ISTE Standards into practice by facilitating active learning and providing meaningful feedback.

For Educators:
Learner

Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by technology and reflect on their effectiveness.

For Students:
Innovative Designer

Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.

Spark Your Creativity Through Game-Based Learning With Minecraft Education

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 115A

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