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Minecraft in the Classroom
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What Did We Learn? Minecraft is an open-ended, interactive world created by destroying and creating blocks. Kind of like extreme Legos The more popular the game became, educators began to notice and study its educational potential.
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What Did We Learn? Minecraft Edu: o Version of Minecraft created for the sole purpose of being used in education o Suggested lesson plans created by other teachers who have used them and provide feedback/assessment materials
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What Did We Learn? Skills Practiced Creativity Geometrical thinking Critical thinking Collaboration, and it’s fun!
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It Can Be Used to Serve ELLs Criteria of SIOP Model to use English while reading, writing, listening, and speaking promote interactions with each other and with the teacher – students interact with each other and teacher orally, and listening – write an essay of their plan, or read a passage
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It Can Be Used to Serve ELLs Criteria of SIOP Model implemented with ease for nearly any subject area or grade level – Language Arts – Social Studies, construction of some historical site – Science, construction of a biome – Foreign Language, writing in another language or communicate using other language – Math, perimeter/area
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It Can Be Used to Serve ELLs Criteria of SIOP Model provide information for the teacher to use for review and assessment of content and language objectives – assess the students in the classroom through observations – evaluate what the students have done, which gives information for review.
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