Minecraft for Education
‘Minecraft: Education Edition is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment. This course will explore how teachers can use it as cross-curricular learning tool to help improve student engagement, collaboration, creative exploration, and learning outcomes’
Course Modules
- Introduction to Minecraft Education & Office 365 tools
- Using Minecraft in the Classroom
- Creating a Minecraft World
- Design and develop a Minecraft based curricular project
- Game based learning and School Self Evaluation (SSE)
Technical Requirements
All our courses require broadband Internet access (Min of 2mb recommended) and participants need to be familiar with using the internet, downloading and installing software.
Course Objectives
Participants will familiarise themselves with Minecraft: Education Edition and how game-based learning can be used to create new teaching and learning opportunities in their classrooms.
Use Minecraft as a player to learn the controls, crafting, and game features necessary to gain confidence about game-based learning.
Discover strategies, tips, and tricks to integrate Minecraft into the classroom, learning what works for other teachers and explore the range of Minecraft teaching and learning resources that can be used in the classroom.
Participants will understand how to apply the SSE guidelines and the Digital Learning Framework to their own teaching and understand how developing their own ICT practice can have an impact at school level.
Expected Outcomes
Participants will learn about the educational potential of Minecraft and game-based learning and be introduced to the Education Edition, designed to make it easier to use in schools.
In Live Online Microsoft Teams workshops: and online, participants will learn to play Minecraft EE, explore its in-built library of lessons plans and create curriculum and classroom resources that they can take back to their classrooms.
Course Duration
Live Online Microsoft Teams workshops:
July 1st- 3rd Booked Out
Online: July 4th to August 21st
This is a blended course, 3 Days Live Online Microsoft Teams workshops and the remainder (Approx 8 hours) of the course online at cpd.teachnet.ie, anytime between July 4th and August 21st. Participants are required to attend all live workshops and engage meaningfully with online content for approximately 8 hours. Whilst participation and engagement with the course content will be primarily judged on the quality of their contributions, an attendance roll will be kept and a log of their time spent working online.
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