What Recreating School in Minecraft Can Teach About Reimagining Education
What Recreating School in Minecraft Can Teach About Reimagining Education
What Recreating School in Minecraft Can Teach About Reimagining Education
By Scott Traylor
April 27, 2020
Summary
Many of these people were already signed up on our Discord server, which is kind of an upgraded version of Skype.
In the beginning it was just you who started building out Penn in Minecraft, and then later another eight people joined in.
They're using a tool to directly download satellite images of the buildings and import it instantly into Minecraft.
How did you start thinking about the server and how did the needs of hosting evolve as you began to release your build to friends on campus?
A decent PC can handle around 20 people playing at the same time, and in the early stages of building we never had that many people playing.
The creative server is where we're building the Penn campus.
Then there's the survival mode server, which is standard gameplay most people are familiar with in Minecraft.
It's very advanced and a bit intimidating for people who don't know a lot about Minecraft.
The plan is for it to be a faction server, almost like in Game of Thrones where each school would be their own kingdom on different parts of the same map.
I love creating things and in a certain sense building in Minecraft is an expression of the soul's freedom, to wax poetic about it.
Reference
Traylor, S. (2020, April 27). What Recreating School in Minecraft Can Teach About Reimagining Education - EdSurge News. Retrieved April 30, 2020, from https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-04-27-what-recreating-school-in-minecraft-can-teach-about-reimagining-education