Q0: Welcome to the #MinecraftEDU#edchat. Please introduce yourself: Name, Role, Current Coordinates and what your favorite #Minecraft community activities are in general?
Q0: Welcome to #MinecraftEDU Chat! Please introduce yourself: Name, Role, Current Coordinates and what are your favorite community activities in general?
A0: Welcome & hello everyone to our #MinecraftEDU#edchat! I'm Anna AKA ‘Momibelle’: Mom & longtime #Minecraft educator and your host for tonight's chat. Emibelle and I reside in Vancouver, Ca. We luv to design/build/play & learn w/ #Minecraft in our #EDU co-curricular universe.
Good Morning or Good Evening, from which ever Biome you hail from. Calling all Miners, Crafters, and Creepers to join us on Tonights #MinecraftEDU Chat. Welcome and Thank You for Joining.
Q0: Welcome to #MinecraftEDU Chat! Please introduce yourself: Name, Role, Current Coordinates and what are your favorite community activities in general?
A0: Welcome, Mark G, from Southern NJ. Elementary Educator and EdTech Director. I love the community events like festivals, with vendors and music, (and maybe some laptops w/ WiFi and #MinecrafTEDU)
A0 - I'm Garrett Z, or PBJelly from Canada. I'm the Co-founder of this chat and always inspired to see the awesome things happening in your classrooms with Games. As a Master Trainer, I support your growth with #MinecraftEdu
A0 - We've got lots of insight to offer on helping create cohesive #MinecraftEDU community play and running co-curricular after-school camps and clubs. Tonight I hope you pick-up some ideas and get to meet some new #Minecraft folks who are a wider part of our awesome community.
Hey! I'm Kyle, I'm a builder and #minecraftedu fan here in Toronto. My favorite community activities are all centered around building! The most fun i've had in a community was during large scale timelapses.
A0 - We've got lots of insight to offer on helping create cohesive #MinecraftEDU community play and running co-curricular after-school camps and clubs. Tonight I hope you pick-up some ideas and get to meet some new #Minecraft folks who are a wider part of our awesome community.
A0: Sarah from Canada. Digital Content Producer at a big museum, love community artisan festivals and seeing what people can make when inspired #minecraftedu
#MinecraftEDU#edchat Bryan Sanders from Los Angeles — high school English teacher back in school myself for a doctorate in Educatonal Leadership — been MC’ing for a while now, and currently seeking new ways to disrupt K20 with EdTech — I haven’t done MC events @MCKidsAcademy
Yep, and now we have Official Minecraft festivals in partnership w/ @PlayCraftLearn , love the @minefaire events. Check them out, I am sure they are doing something near you in 2018! #MinecraftEdu
In reply to
@MCKidsAcademy, @PlayCraftLearn, @minefaire
A1 - #MinecraftEdu 's collaboratively creative focus has always been key to bringing people from around the world together. Can we engage our Ss in similar School/District collaboration time?
A1: - Bringing the virtual unstructured playground into the #MinecraftEDU classroom helps solidly establish collaborative learning through play practices for all.
A1 - (CTD) Perhaps we might explore collaborative School Spirit time, that allows Ss to support their school by designing Spirit Themed worlds which can be shared with incoming Ss. #MinecraftEdu
A1: - If at all possible, ongoing online play outside of time in the room can aid and support the idea of community. Especially when kids begin to role-play! #MinecraftEDU
Actually I mentioned you twice in 2 days. 1st at the company I work for making #minecraftedu lessons and 2nd at Ts training with @CETtalk@edu_il Ministry of Education. BTW - we couldn't get everyone inside the same server even though we're all same tenant. WHY? @ImmersiveMind
In reply to
@PBJellyGames, @CETtalk, @edu_il, @ImmersiveMind
A1: We're kind of counting on the fact that working to create a shared world and having shared experience (both positive and negative) will give context to help students understand issues affecting communities IRL #minecraftedu
A1: - If at all possible, ongoing online play outside of time in the room can aid and support the idea of community. Especially when kids begin to role-play! #MinecraftEDU
A1: I don't have to much insight about real school classrooms, but from my experience, projects build a sense of community really well! my first month running a minecraft camp, we build a giant starswars base and turned a bunch of new Ss into great friends! #MinecraftEdu
You highlight a key fear for Ts. TIME! In trainings I often speak of the idea that time is only as important as the results it gets. If Play yields better learning then it's worth #MinecraftEdu
Thanks! My students love the game and are full of pizzazz when we get online together. The school day often gets rewritten once Minecraft is introduced. And that right there is the big issue: TIME.
A1: I don't have to much insight about real school classrooms, but from my experience, projects build a sense of community really well! my first month running a minecraft camp, we build a giant starswars base and turned a bunch of new Ss into great friends! #MinecraftEdu
A1: Minecraft can be used to create strong community spirit in schools by encouraging teamwork and collaboration in small group build projects #MinecraftEdu
Wow! The insights and inspiration from Q1 blew me away! #MinecraftEdu Now onto Q2: How could using Minecraft as a community building tool support and impact SEL opportunities. #MinecraftEdu
A2 - #SEL happens not in a SILO of training / dissemination, but rather in community activity that allows Ss to progress social skills. #MinecraftEdu allows that activity to happen in relative safety.
Yes I agree. This is often what it looks like. Wouldn't it be great if there were Game Like ways that kept them focused instead of coaxing to learn? #MinecraftEdu
A2 -(CTD) There will always be conflicts in #MinecraftEdu but Ss are used to this in traditional games, however, in a school managed setting we can address the positive behaviors In Real Time.
A2: - Multiplayer gaming is a golden opportunity to explore your Ss Social and Emotional Learning aptitudes. Acting as both mirror and magnifier of events and situations that may arise. #MinecraftEDU
This is one of the reasons I'm a big supporter of using Minecraft Authentically. Having Ts design fun learning EduGAMEs lets Ss stay in a state of game flow. #MinecraftEdu
Yes I agree. This is often what it looks like. Wouldn't it be great if there were Game Like ways that kept them focused instead of coaxing to learn? #MinecraftEdu
So well said! Kids are already exposed to Multiplayer in their lives, but it's completely without guidance and support form adults. *Mostly* #MinecraftEdu
A2: - Multiplayer gaming is a golden opportunity to explore your Ss Social and Emotional Learning aptitudes. Acting as both mirror and magnifier of events and situations that may arise. #MinecraftEDU
A2: I'm going to continue with my Star Wars base example. Having conflict was so important to the kids development. Sometimes stuff got broken, and people got upset, but the Ss learned so much from having those small conflicts, and learned how to work past them. #MinecraftEdu
A2: Learning how to deal with the inevitable setbacks -- and helping peers deal with them -- can be a good tool. Also empathy-building. "Remember how you felt when X happened? How do you think X feels now? What do you think would help?" #minecraftedu
Culture is an essential part of the class and LearniNG Experience. We need to build a classroom community within game as well, with established rules and Norms and expectations #MinecraftEdu
A1: Using the prompt @iLearningUK taught me: "SHOW me that YOU as a GROUP know how to EXPLAIN this to me. Super easy to remember, very hard to implement. #minecraftedu
A2: Learning how to deal with the inevitable setbacks -- and helping peers deal with them -- can be a good tool. Also empathy-building. "Remember how you felt when X happened? How do you think X feels now? What do you think would help?" #minecraftedu
A2 Kids shine when they’re comfortable and #MinecraftEDU gives students the ability to learn in a world that thy thrive in. From there, the collaboration, creativity are taken to a whole new level.
A2: I would argue that the key answer can only be found by those in the community. Our job is to bring them to the system and help guide them to become agents of their own destinies! #MinecraftEdu
We’ve been working hard to get the multiplayer M:EE function working in our district. Just found out access points were filtering broadcasts yes problem solved #MinecraftEdu
A2: To answer that I need to know how exactly do you define SEL? leave the mambo jumbo stuff aside. No need to impress me with fancy terms super #pedagogy . #minecraftedu
Building community is resprical. I find the knowledge and willingness to share from experts like @PBJellyGames is an incredible resource. But growth can also come from within the learning community, which goes back to culture. #MinecraftEDU
In reply to
@nayrbgo, @MCKidsAcademy, @PBJellyGames
This is an AWESOME Point. "GROUP" the collective word and work makes all the difference in building a community and supporting #SEL growth. It's ours not mine! #MinecraftEdu
A1: Using the prompt @iLearningUK taught me: "SHOW me that YOU as a GROUP know how to EXPLAIN this to me. Super easy to remember, very hard to implement. #minecraftedu
A3 - It’s worth sitting down ahead of time and allowing the kids to establish a ‘community’ set of rules around acceptable behaviors AND (in-game) consequences! #MinecraftEDU
I would also say that #MinecraftEdu is a world that students understand and can learn from. Social interaction in the classroom can be very difficult and confusing for Ss
I think we be kindred spirits Bryan. You've hit the Q on the head here. So often we UNDERestimate what our Ss are capable of, and what that brings to our community. #MinecraftEDU
A3 -(CTD) Students know the challenges of greifing and other negatives which occur in games. Allowing them to create a "Code of Conduct" inspires both leadership, and more solid and appropriate guidelines for the game. #MinecraftEdu
As an educator I know that it is so hard for me to watch a child make a mistake and I want to jump in and help, but that would rob the child of learning. So much hard to watch a child productively struggle. #MinecraftEDU
A3: Our learners are offsite so their classroom teachers have to take the lead on it, but our guidelines encourage letting the students define their own guidelines for conduct, like we do in museum camps. More likely to stick that way. #minecraftedu
And that's true of parenting, too. We absolutely must step back in order to let a child learn, grow and become the awesome person they are meant to be! #MinecraftEDU
Sliced my finger on an apple peeler, inhibiting my typing ability. and I dont know how to spell recipricol? reciprical? I give up, spell checker anyone?? #MinecraftEDU
In reply to
@PBJellyGames, @nayrbgo, @MCKidsAcademy
Yes! Great point. Interactions in classrooms don't feel as normal or real for Students. Minecraft allows a unique authenticity to interactions. #MinecraftEdu
I would also say that #MinecraftEdu is a world that students understand and can learn from. Social interaction in the classroom can be very difficult and confusing for Ss
A3 - Another worthy way to create rules is use the existing Code of Conduct that your school or district may have, then have the kids re-write to suit the game! #MinecraftEDU
A3 - Another worthy way to create rules is use the existing Code of Conduct that your school or district may have, then have the kids re-write to suit the game! #MinecraftEDU
Yes, all walks of life. I know I can do something quicker/better more efficiently then my kids, but if I do it, and not them, then they do not learn and I rob them of learning. #MinecraftEDU
Communication and social interactions are changing. Kids are not wrong to be comfortable online. I work with a global group of people and rarely do F2F. #MinecraftEdu it's their norm.
Yes! Great point. Interactions in classrooms don't feel as normal or real for Students. Minecraft allows a unique authenticity to interactions. #MinecraftEdu
I would also say that #MinecraftEdu is a world that students understand and can learn from. Social interaction in the classroom can be very difficult and confusing for Ss
A2: Minecraft can be used as a community building tool to develop empathy for others. For example, those who are poor or are less fortunate. Also, how as a society we can give back to our communities and help others #MinecraftEDU
Awesome Point Scott! I love how your focus is on meeting Ss where they are and making it authentic to their thrive zone. IT allows real community! #MinecraftEdu
A2 Kids shine when they’re comfortable and #MinecraftEDU gives students the ability to learn in a world that thy thrive in. From there, the collaboration, creativity are taken to a whole new level.
Yes! Great point. Interactions in classrooms don't feel as normal or real for Students. Minecraft allows a unique authenticity to interactions. #MinecraftEdu
I would also say that #MinecraftEdu is a world that students understand and can learn from. Social interaction in the classroom can be very difficult and confusing for Ss
I hate the fact that we're missing out on @BronSt tonight. She's so knowledgeable on this subject of community and #MinecraftEdu - Happy Holidays Bron!
Love the idea of having Students build the code of conduct. DO they literally build it in game? Do you have them post it on signs in write it in book and quills? #MinecraftEDU
It require less modeling and more willingness to let play happen naturally, then massage out the kinks. When in doubt ASK Ss how they play at home #MinecraftEdu
A3: Positive methods, rules or guidelines of play that foster a constructive community can be co-created with students for buy-in. Students determine consequences for rule breaking and griefing #MinecraftEdu
A4 - (CTD) - Allowing students to take on more in Game responsibility (IE: Server Manager, Build Leader, Ect.) can actually help Ss to grow their leadership. I have had this experience with the Entertainment side of #MinecraftEdu on YouTube.
A4 - In a community based play environment, there can be more unusual circumstances that arise and creative solutions are needed. It's best to ask (and involve) the community for solutions! #MinecraftEDU
A4 (CTD) - I dislike direct in game rewards for behavior (IE Diamond Sword Ect) But I love and have seen success with giving roles and extra responsibilities for good behavior / team skills. #MinecraftEdu
A4 - My biggest recommendation is not to use #MinecraftEdu as a behavioral modifier, or discontinuing use as a punishment. Conflict is a natural part of kids & games ... (TBC)
OK so I'm finding this interesting that Ts are the ones that can and do find new ways to engage their Ss thanks to #Minecraft and #MinecraftEDU. Omigosh ...
A3: Positive methods, rules or guidelines of play that foster a constructive community can be co-created with students for buy-in. Students determine consequences for rule breaking and griefing #MinecraftEdu
A4: ooof, sometimes you just have to walk away from the screen, to be honest — otherwise, I am not sure kids can recall the human behind the avatar #MinecraftEdu#edchat
A4 (CTD Pt2) - Ex - letting Ss earn behavior points to vie for a position of Build Leadership, Server Setup, Game Host etc. These are great methods that work well w/ #MinecraftEdu
A4: I love using command blocks and teleporting the offender above a slew of cobwebs that slowly lead down into a pit of lava.
https://t.co/E3IgdY82aY#MinecraftEdu
A4: The easy thing to do would be using @PlayCraftLearn Classroom Mode and put the Ss in "time out". But that's only part of the solution. They need to use this time out to "think about what they did" and propose guidelines themselves for the class. #MinecraftEdu
A4 - It may be worth revisiting your original Code of Players Conduct, too, to see if something fell through the blocks. We've been through numerous editions! #MinecraftEDU
A4; We're also kind of counting on conflict to happen, and to let it play out to an extent, so that students have "remember when this happened" context to draw on for understanding IRL conflicts over natural resources. #minecraftedu
Definitely! A huge part of our first days together at a camp incorporate outdoor games with both names ... it makes for the right kind of connection. Oh, the games we play! #MinecraftEDU
A4: I love using command blocks and teleporting the offender above a slew of cobwebs that slowly lead down into a pit of lava.
https://t.co/E3IgdY82aY#MinecraftEdu
A4 - It may be worth revisiting your original Code of Players Conduct, too, to see if something fell through the blocks. We've been through numerous editions! #MinecraftEDU
A4 (CTD) - I dislike direct in game rewards for behavior (IE Diamond Sword Ect) But I love and have seen success with giving roles and extra responsibilities for good behavior / team skills. #MinecraftEdu
Learning from conflict, authentically during games is so important! I myself shied away and planned to minimize conflicts during my time in the classroom, but now I wonder how else will students learn to peer negotiate, and cooperate?
We just came from my sons' pre-k Hanukkah party with a Lattke bar. They were putting crazy stuff on latkes, like Syrup, sprinkles, chocolate sauce, and more! Basically a latke topped with a sunday! #MinecraftEDU
In reply to
@supervxn, @iwearthecrowns, @mr_isaacs
When you say not to use #MinecraftEdu as a behavioral modifier, does that factor in time outs using Classroom Mode or the other management features? What are your thoughts on that?
My school is slow to take new ideas onboard as I guess many schools are. I find the most energy comes from the bottom level and rises to the top. Ideas and community starts there. #MinecraftEDU
Great point. Jim Collins in his book Good to Great, discusses the important of conflict and how it helps us grow. This is true for students as well as businesses. #MinecraftEDU
Yep. Situationally they come in handy, but when child goes into a time-out do they often stop because they're forced not because they want to. #MinecraftEdu
#MinecraftEdu Not in every case, but in many I feel like there are more intrinsic ways that Minecraft can create a desire to be good, positive and constructive.
It is ironic how schools push "innovation" but are very conservative and want to adopt proven methods and best practices. I see this slowly shifting though. And yes, it is a grass-roots movement. #MinecraftEDU#OurMinecraftRevolution
A5 - For advanced players, this is a great time to start assigning roles and responsibilities! Let them take the lead in helping engage the others through creative play. #MinecraftEDU
A5 - For advanced players, this is a great time to start assigning roles and responsibilities! Let them take the lead in helping engage the others through creative play. #MinecraftEDU
Well I do know some of my Ts have used the game along these lines. But only in that we reward for good behavior. The community takes care of the poor behaviors, albeit under our guidance. #MinecraftEDU
