Minecraft, the wildly popular sandbox game created by Markus Persson, has had a profound impact on modern game design. One of the key aspects of Minecraft that has influenced modern game design is its open-ended gameplay.
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Teachers can achieve the 4 Ps in physical classrooms through a station rotation model, as students visit stations with BrainPop or PBS LearningMedia videos, materials needed for project design, or other components. In the activity, students divide a sheet of paper into six parts or "Rooms." They then follow prompts for writing descriptive text in each room.
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Though the coronavirus is twisting the education landscape, students have entire worlds where they can go to interact with their teachers and classmates, unhindered by the pandemic. Those worlds are ever-changing, created by students and teachers alike within Minecraft: Education Edition.
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These quality assurance exercises are just one facet of a project management effort that seems almost unfeasibly competent: there's a whole workflow system for laying out new districts, construction codes to keep style and quality consistent among the swarm of builders at work on the city, and regular staff meetings over discord to co-ordinate the mammoth effort.
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The ludic framework works through rhetorics of play as a frame of reference; rhetorics of possibility and invention as a means of production; the acceptance of transformative failure; and engages with digital communities to further knowledge through social affinity while being grounded in constructionist learning theories.
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The studio's "Minecraft: Education Edition" has for the last few years played host to virtual curricula that have allowed students to visit and learn about global monuments, sharpen math skills, understand coding or take puzzle-filled explorations to places as varied as the human body or a NASA-approved jaunt into the International Space Station.
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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.
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