"Doma" on minecraft: that schoolchildren will study with the help of a favorite computer game. What is taught at Minecraft Education Edition Minecraft learning for beginners in the computer

Remember the saying: "Read a book - fly on wings"? It is impossible to say that she is outdated, but the sources of knowledge have already become much more. Among them are a special Minecraft Education Edition. True, what can be a learning process in this version of minecraft, not quite understandable. Of course, I perfectly imagine what a person can learn, passionate about the usual minecraft - he himself gradually transformed from the player in the amateur programmer. But how can it be applied at school and how it can be docked for example with chemistry or history, I frankly did not understand.

Yes, and the ability to communicate with virtual characters, but ... what's next? How can I get some knowledge of this? Articles and videos who have published developers, made information that training in Minecraft Education Edition is very productive and efficient. But no specific examples.

On the project site, among the descriptions of the blocks, commands (which, in Education Edition appeared earlier than in Pocket / Windows 10), it was not the most interesting - explanation for which schools and students may need to start the educational process in minecraft, as he may look and what exactly You can learn "playing".

Nevertheless, the creators of this version of the game, apparently, knew what they did. As I understand it, they were calculated on the active participants of the community, which, have already created many curricula, lessons and worlds. A scheme that Minecraft is obliged to success - the active contribution of the community, worked and this time. And now any interested destroyed on the project site is not only information and real materials, but also ready worlds with a description, as well as a lesson plan for a variety of topics.

I learned with great pleasure to have available offers and tell about several interesting "lessons."

Boolean logic

Perhaps this is one of the most obvious Minecraft applications for learning. We are talking about the visual use of Redstone to build schemes implementing logical operators: and, or not.

The lesson kit includes a presentation, as well as the world in which students will need to produce experiments. The results of the experiments should be reflected in the relevant tables, apparently it is assumed that at the end of the lessons, these leaves will give up to the teacher, so that it can estimate how much students learned the material.

Geometric figures

This lesson is devoted to the simplest concepts about geometric shapes. Pupils will be asked to build a rectangle, squares, triangles, etc. They will be able to explore that such a perimeter and square, having received the most clear explanation - if necessary, you can recalculate all the blocks that went to build a particular figure.

Model of the human heart

Perhaps this lesson struck me most. I expected to meet almost anything, but the fact that someone comes to the head to show how the heart works using the model built in minecraft did not precisely assume!

Amazing!

Education assumes that the students will build a model of heart and lungs in the game. At the same time, liquids of different colors are used to designate blood and oxygen in the lungs, and during the lesson they will be studied as light fill blood oxygen, and the heart valves control the correct direction of blood.

I am sure that such a lesson is much more interesting and clearer than the illustration in the book.

Goods and services

This lesson is devoted to the production of goods, their movement, processing. In general, the foundation of the economy, which is often trying to implement on many RPG servers. And perhaps the creators of these servers, would not hurt something like this course, to understand what the wishes are distinguished from the needs that there are no unlimited resources.

Mathematics, economy, literature, sociology, right ...

I only told about several examples. But they are on the website Minecraft Education Edition much more. And honestly, at the beginning I was a little disappointed. I waited for cards, mechanisms, some unexpected inventions ... And found only ideas ...

The child is trying to demonstrate to you new achievements in your world minecraft, and you praise on duty and add: "It would be better to do so at school." Just do not say that you do not have this. In minecraftplays almost halfchildren in the world. And it is really more interesting for them than.

Microsoft has invented how to use the love of children to minecraft with benefits to study. The educational version of the game Minecraft for Education in Ukraine will be available from September this year.

What subjects can be studied using your favorite toys, and are ready for such changes in the teacher of Ukrainian schools, the site told the head of the "Partnership in Education" program in Microsoft in Education Roman Rudyuk.

Modern children were born and grow in the digital world. They have another way of thinking, the speed of perception. Contact with the world through the tablet screen for them naturally.

In computers and the Internet, these children understand, sometimes, better parents. In two or three years, they themselves find and pump cartoons, remove passwords from parental smartphones and play games.

This is not surprising, considering how technologies are developing with what pace. Surprisingly the other: the school of these children is still trying to learn from the old principles and schemes.

Tablet, smartphone at school perceive as interference to study. Communication of a child with a computer is trying to stop, cutting to a minimum. Discuss the detriment of computer games, advise how to wean a child from a computer. If you allow - as a toy, as encouraging for good behavior.

But why not try to train and educate with gadgets? After all, tablets and games are a great toolkit, and children he is closer and clearer than textbooks and recordings on the board.

Two years ago, when Microsoft bought the rights to minecraft, no one understood why it was. And with the help of the game, we decided to introduce gamecomms into the educational system.

Why is minecraft?

Because the children love him, and because it opens up huge expanses for creativity. Basic element of the game - Cubes. A completely universal thing from which you can create any objects, set and solve any tasks. At the same time, children do not passively perceive the information, but actively participate in the process. This makes it easy to understand the topic and memorization.

Mathematics, Biology, History: Where is the benefit of the game minecraft

Minecraft for Education is not a collection of finished schemes and lessons. This is a platform that teachers can use to create lessons. It does not replace the traditional learning program, and complements it, visualizes and fills the work.

The program works for any school subject, because it can be realized in it any idea.

Geography

One thing is to see the Egyptian pyramid in the textbook in the picture with a pair of paragraphs of text. Another thing is to move inside the building, inspect it in real size, wander inside, to see what it consists of how tomb is located, and so on.

Or create a pyramid from cubes yourself - first to study the topic in detail, and then transfer these knowledge to the Minecraft world.

From cubes, you can build landscapes, study the structure of the earth's crust - do not consider dusty plaster layouts from the closet, and independently create projects.

Or contour cards. Not a pencil in a notebook to paint, but to build in minecraft, as in this lesson.

Story

Instead of combaling dates and names, we disconnect, for example, wooden fortresses, we distribute the role of historical characters with participants and recover within the framework of the class, for example, the history of the baptism of Kievan Rus.

The same applies to any historical event. Minecraft allows you to create peace with all the nuances of the studied time: architecture, landscape, and so on.

Maths

Equations in the notebook are boring. And if you specify the equations right in the game, and solutions of these equations will be the coordinates of the point on the map, in which the treasure is hidden, they will decide them much more interesting.

Biology

Build a dinosaur skeleton from cubes? Easy! Or model of the human body. Interestingly, because of what we are.

In this lesson, the guys travel inside the living cell and are studying how her organelles work.

Chemistry

Here you can not be limited to the construction of the molecule layout. Chemistry lies at the basis of the minecraft. Starting the game, the character mines minerals and crafts from them the necessary materials and objects.

The idea of \u200b\u200bsynthesis can be used during classes so that children understand how substances interact, and that it turns out.

Physics

The teacher explains the behavior of a substance in a solid, liquid and gaseous state. All participants have their own characters, and the properties of matter in minecraft allow you to display real physical processes on Earth.

What else>

Computer learning games are used often. But they are usually template, plots and solutions are limited in them.

Minecraft for Education is not limited to the framework of one item. This is a designer, thanks to which the phenomena can be studied from different sides.

The teacher has created a task: you need to build a hotel. Every game resource he appointed the price, and the children received a certain budget at their disposal.

Children have begun task. They reflect on how to build more convenient and more profitable. Separate the costs, choose materials, think over the location of the rooms, ranging from the automatic opening of the door and the location of the switch, ending with the colors on the balcony and toilet.

This complex object at first occurs in their heads, and then transferred to the Minecraft space.

They are looking for information, consider discussing. Learn to argue and defend your opinion, work in a team. Is it possible to attribute such a project to some particular subject? Or appreciate it only within the framework of the school program?

Minecraft for Education helps to consider the world without sharing it on objects, but comprehensively. Understand and recreate the mechanisms and processes that work in it. The child understands that bread starts not with the test. You need to plant grains, grow, remove, grind, and then cook the dough and oven.

And a spoon on his desk is a ore that was mined, melted, cleared, turned into a metal and made the necessary item from it. He is aware of this without explanation and cramps - just such processes go in his game.

Minecraft and Minecraft for Education: What's the difference

The game version of minecraft has many materials and phenomena that is not in nature. For example, there are dragons, there are non-existent materials and chemical elements. In the game it is interesting, but in the training version only interferes.

Minecraft for Education is not possible to add fantastic modes (modifications). There are only realistic processes that exist in life.

Second feature - technical. In the game version to play with friends, you need to look for the server, connect to it. There is no guarantee that there will be no extraneous players there and do not destroy the buildings - the children love to lose weight.

Minecraft for education does not need servers. The teacher creates a web class, students are connected to it through their accounts, and you can start the game. You can connect from any computer, and at home, and at school.

A rich toolkit has been created for the teacher: it can create tasks, distribute zones for construction, lead the process.
How to create learning worlds how to give tasks - for all there are clear instructions.

Computer Games in Learning: What do you think about Minecraft for education teacher

There is a bad news, and there is good.

Of the minuses: Most teachers are difficult to rebuild, agree that the usual teaching methods with modern children work badly. Not everyone is ready to use gaming tools.

What to talk about games, if not all teachers are not familiar enough to use it in work.

Of the advantages: there are many young teachers who are ready to learn in a new way and are looking for progressive methods. From September of this year, about a hundred schools in Ukraine are planning to introduce a computer game in training. Perhaps there will be more of them, it depends on the initiative of the directors and teachers.

So far, it is difficult: except for the desire for a new one, at this stage the teacher needs even knowledge of English. Volunteers during beta testing have already created their lessons that can be used as an example. True, it is only English-language material. In June, Ukrainian teachers received access to beta testing. So, ready-made lessons in access will be quite a lot.

For teachers who want to talk with children on the game that is understandable and interesting to him, Microsoft has meetings and learning. Prepare coaches who transmit knowledge to colleagues.

In Ukraine, there are already about 150 teachers who learn to use new technologies, and immediately use it in work.

Microsoft does not create lessons or courses on subjects. It gives the overall proficiency program, the general direction. And every teacher or parent who wants to teach the child is interesting, will be able to create its own lessons, implement their own ideas.

In the last part of the game Minecraft, we told you about the basic survival skills in the game. Now it's time to tell a little about the possibilities of the game.

Battle tactics with mobs

One of the most exciting parts of the game is the fight against mobs. They are conventionally divided into three categories: peaceful (friendly), neutral and hostile. Peaceful mobs do not attack you under any circumstances, neutral - after aggression on your part, hostile - at the first opportunity. It is about the struggle with the latter will be discussed further in this tutorial on Minecraft. I will achieve the fact that hostile mobs appear only in the absence of light. In other words, you can meet them on the surface at night or in dark caves. To avoid the appearance of mobs in the house, it is necessary to illuminate it with torches. On the surface most often encountered zombies, spiders, skeletons and cryper.

The cryper is an avid enemy of all players in Minecraft. This creature, sorry, you will not pick a different word, quietly sinking to the character and explodes with hissing, inflicting a consonant damage to the chief hero. He is practically a silent, but still it can be noticed in characteristic steps coming from the darkness. Before the explosion, you will hear a hissing sound. Of course, it is best to deal with such a mob at a distance with a bow. But at the beginning of the game you will not have it, so you will have to wipe the sword. Everything is simple here: when the enemy is at a distance of 1 cells from you, apply a blow to the sword and go back. Repeat the operation until the opponent's complete destruction. As a reward, get a little powder.

Zombie. This character of our Minecraft tutorial is quite common, but not too dangerous. In mind the absence of his brains, the zombies inform you about your approximation with a characteristic kind. It is easy to cope with it: naturally, it is better to shoot it at a distance with a bow, but you can quickly kill the sword. If the zombie is alone, you can not strain at all: every sword kick will discard the enemy back. If the zombie is a whole group, then you can attack with the elevation, or wind circles around them, killing one creature. There are cases when especially "talented" individuals are armed with a sword, part or a complete set of armor. However, the outcome of the battle for them does not change.

Spiders. These creatures are two main species: normal and cave. The first view can be found on the first night of the Minecraft world. Unlike the previous two opponents, it is much more difficult to cope with spiders. They can not only move quickly, but also jump in 2-3 blocks and climb on the walls. Most training game Minecraft recommend attacking spiders with a sword at the time of the jump, and then retreat. In addition, spiders can be killed with a bow, but at the same time you need to constantly move and keep the distance. Another important moment - spiders can not jump in the water. For the murder of an ordinary spider you get a thread and a spider eye. Thread can and need to be used to create onions and wool. The cave spider, how can be judged by the title, is found exclusively in the caves. Due to the fact that it is faster, dexterous and poisonous, this species represents a much greater danger. At the same time, the tactics of its destruction remains the same.

Skeleton. This hero of our Minecraft learning is very and very dangerous, as armed with a bow and attacks with far distance. Particularly dangerous when attacking with other mobs. When you try to end the enemies in the near battle, it will attack you from the distance. Ideally, it is necessary to become the rest of the opponents between you and the skeleton. Then he will apply damage "to his". Keep in mind that you can easily ride from enemy arrows if you will quickly maneuver. When you try to get closer to the skeleton at a close distance, it will go to the left, you need to cut the path and pour to the sword well. Of course, you can kill the skeleton and from the far distance, but you need to constantly maneuver so as not to get an arrow in the fillet part. After death, the skeleton can leave an arrow, bone, onion.

One of the most terrible and heavy opponents on the surface is a skeleton sitting on a spider. This duo moves very quickly, can crawl along the walls and make considerable jumps, attack both close (spider) and at the far distance (skeleton). In general, solid joy. However, this tandem can be killed. If you are an adherent onions, it will be easier to cope: just attack a couple from a decent distance, evading arrogant and keeping the distance. If you wish to kill the creature in close battle, then you need to use the usual spider fight tactics by leaving the skeleton shots.

Wolf. This type of mobs is neutral and attacks only after you. And if one wolf does not represent much danger even for an inexperienced player, then the flock of wolves can easily kill you. Naturally, it seems that the best way to cope with it is to shoot from Luka, but because of their high speed, it is even difficult to cope with one individual, so the best way is to attack the sword, not giving opponents from the back.

At this, the training of battles in Minecraft can be considered finished. We introduced you to the main opponents who are waiting for you on the surface. In the caves, in hell, the region you can also face the gast, Iphritis, lavva cube, slug, swine dealer, iron head, wanderer edge, scaly. But we will give you a methodology for the fight against them. And in the meantime we will go to the depths of the Minecraft caves.

Search and Research Caves

Why do you need a study of caves? What about the many deposits of ore, treasure and just adventure. Let's start with the list of things that you will need to be needed to study the caves: torches (preferably more than 50 units), Kirk, shovel (preferably take a few pieces, or make them in place), water bucket. In addition, as in any hike, you need to take weapons, armor and food.

Now a little learning search for caves in Minecraft. Naturally, the easiest way to find a cave on the surface. Most often, they are small enough. Another way is to detect a cave during excavations. If you are lucky, then you can hear the strange sounds that are coming from under the ground - it means there are hostile mobs in the caves. In addition, there are still a couple of not quite honest, but still interesting intelligence methods - cardographer and mob codes. Cartographer is a special third-party program that displays the location of the cave on the map. The method associated with the codes of mobs works in several versions of the game and when you press the F3 key displays their digital code over the mobs, even if they are underground. Thus, according to the abundance of codes underground, you can judge the location of the cave and its size (the more mobs, the more cave).

Before proceeding with a direct study of the caves, a small tutorial by what cannot be done in the caves in Minecraft and what is worthwhile:

1. Do not dig directly under it.

You can fall into the lava, water or break through the cave arch and collapse onto it. In this case, a reduction in health is the lowest charge for carelessness. Also should not dig over: risk being flooded with water or be buried under the sand and gravel layer. In this regard, it is recommended to always have a solid block in the cell on the bout. If it is suddenly water will appear right in front of you, you can quickly close the passage using a solid block.

2. Use torches.

Definitely it is necessary to illuminate your way. First, mobs cannot appear in the dark, respectively you will not hear the bad sounds behind your back. Secondly, illuminating the space, you can notice the failure directly in front of yourself and do not fall into the cave.

3. Make pointers.

Lost in the cave network without third-party programs is easier than simple. Therefore, experienced players always make marks on the walls or sex, special signs of torches, allowing to accurately determine where to go. Separate players make separate paths from a red stone from the cave entrance. In addition, you can make special signs; And to call each cave with its unique name.

4. Be prepared for attack of opponents.

Caves, especially large, just kishmy-sisha with evil monsters, who want to kill you. Therefore, you should not go on research without weapons, armor and food. Also, do not try to fight them in the dark, it is better to strategically retreat to the lit part of the cave.

In this Tutorial on Minecraft I would like to lay a separate word for the treasury. Treasurers are small rooms of the right cobblestone shape, which were created randomly, most often in the depths of the caves. Inside you will find a spaner - the point of the appearance of mobs and possibly chests with very valuable content. Naturally, to get to the chests will have to kill mobs that guard them.

Creation and development of mines

Analogue of the caves, rightfully, man-made mines can be considered. The first mine is recommended to do directly from the house, quickly shop in the basement. It is best to break through the mine until the bottom - the admin layer. This layer is a natural limiter and it is impossible to destroy it. After that, it is necessary to expand the shell mines, mining, along the way, minerals. ; Another type of mines time-consuming mine: deepen on 2-3 stone blocks down and start expanding the mine horizontally. ; As a whole, the rules of behavior in the mine are the same as in the cave. Therefore, do not dig under ourselves, highlight the space using torches and do not forget to eat normally.

List all types of possible mines; In this Tutorial, Minecraft does not make sense: the World Wide Web is a diverse recipes and tutorials. But there is one feature that you simply must take into account - trolleys. With the help of them and paved rail, you can quickly descend and climb the mines, to carry goods and valuable resources. There are several types of trolleys, including the engine and a chest. Ideally, the rails for trolleys need to be closed so that it traveled in a circle.

But it is not necessary to rely only on yourself, as you can play the game with other players, the mining craft can be used collectively. For the extraction of a large number of resources, open careers are also used, which are tens of brothers in the Kirk. But if the mining craft you do not care, you can always go fishing, hunting and agriculture. Read more about it.

Hunting

On how to fight mobs, we have already told you at the beginning of this Minecraft training. It's time to tell about how hunts to mobs. Hunting is one of the most fascinating activities in Minecraft, with its help you can get meals, as well as additional resources, such as wool and leather. If you read our previous tutorial on Minecraft, you know that the skin can be obtained after the killing of cows, wool - after the murder of the sheep. The meat that you get after the hunt, be sure to please in the oven. Of course, you can score a pig and a shovel, but it is better to use special tools, such as a sword, onions and an ax. The latter, by the way, you can still cut the trees. But if the hunt for you is too trouble-free lesson and you want a more peaceful way to get food, then fishing is the best choice.

To create a fishing rod, you will need three sticks installed on the diagonal (from the lower left corner to the right upper) and two threads installed vertically under the right stick. After creating, install the fishing rod in the cell on the belt and go to the water. The fishing line is thrown by pressing the PCM, also by clicking the right mouse button, you can make the line to yourself. During fishing, it is necessary to follow the float: when it starts to dive under the water, you can safely fall with the right mouse button. It is best to fish during the rain or while you float on the boat. In addition to direct fishing, the fishing rod can be used to pull up things and opponents. In general, the whole is an extremely useful subject.

Farming

The third and definitely the most stable way to ensure herself with food is to conduct agriculture. In numerous agricultural tutorses in Minecraft, the smallest aspects of farming are painted. We will tell about the most important and interesting moments. Let's start with the fact that in the game you can build both farms for animal breeding and classic agricultural land. Let's start with the Mobo Farm. Here you need to clearly allocate two of them: farms of hostile and peaceful mobs. Farms of hostile mobs are used to obtain a player of various useful items that remain after the death of opponents. At the same time, you can kill mobs manually or create automatic killing systems. Oh yeah! One of the best is a spaner farm. Spawner is a special cube from which hostile mobs appear. It is used to complicate the player's access to the treasury. Since this type of cube cannot be moved, the murder means must be placed nearby. One of the best ways to murder is a system involving a dropping of mobs into water and then in Lava. All you have - to collect the remaining valuable items.

Another, no less entertaining process - breeding peaceful mobs. To do this, you need to build a large building or use a natural cave, lure animals inside with wheat and start breeding. To get a new mob, you need to click on two individuals of one species and keep wheat in your hands. With most mobs, you can get valuable items (milk, wool, eggs) without killing an animal.

If you want to fully learn the game in Minecraft, it is necessary to get acquainted with agriculture. In the game you can breed wheat, pumpkins, watermelons, sugar cane, cocoa beans, mushrooms. It should be especially careful to watch wheat, since the mobs are very loved to pull it out. In this regard, the ideal farms are either lit caves with a crawled ceiling, or special towers. Since the construction of the tower is a rather complicated process, let's start with the collapsed caves.

So, to build a good farm you need to find or make a cave with an open top. In order to do not fall into the mobs, it is necessary to make a glass ceiling and provide additional lighting of the cave using torches for dark time. Now that the premises are ready, you need to prepare the soil. To do this, lay on the floor one layer of the Earth, between the rows; It is necessary to leave a number, one-cube width, designed for water. If there is no water next to the ground, you can forget about rich yield. After installing water blocks, they must be "covered" by semi-blocks of the Earth. After that, it is necessary to treat land by hoe and plant seeds. For full ripening will take several days. Then you will need to collect a crop and again put seeds

On this, Minecraft brief training is over. We told you only a small tolik of what you can do in the game. I think, no one knows all the possibilities of this huge sandbox. We sincerely hope that our tutorial helped you, and soon we will hear about the new minecrafttera, which has achieved brilliant results.

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The sandbox, made in recognizable cubic design, love everyone who played it at least once - from Mala to Great. And people older than 6 and under 12 from the pixel worlds created by their own hands, for the ears do not pull out. It is quite natural that insidious teachers wanted to use such an attractive force in their low educational purposes. Separate enthusiasts have long been shared by their experience in personal blogs, but Santeri Koivisto decided to go further and make Minecraft useful for teachers, to provide methodical support to schools, as well as to distribute the Minecraft license with a discount for educational institutions.

How much it happened than the game is different from the use of a full game, and how to play in the lesson, we told Santheri Koivisto, General Director of TeacherGaming LLC - the company itself, which became the creator of the educational version of Minecraft.

- First of all, curious: why Minecraft?

Satheri Koivisto

The story began with the fact that five years ago I received a pedagogical education. Now I am already a certified teacher in Finland. At that time I was a student and often played at Minecraft for myself - online with friends. And then I accepted the offer to go a teacher for replacement, and thought - why would I not use this game in the lesson?

I turned to my classmates for help in the preparation of the project for my lesson. And the guys helped. The lesson passed perfectly, the children liked the children, but most importantly - liked teachers. They went to the class and asked if I had any troubles, so that they could turn something similar on their lessons. And it was a revelation for me. The fact that the children will be delighted, it was expected, but that teachers ... here had to be some kind of potential.

Somewhere 2-3 months later, in the spring-autumn of 2011, we were going to do a scientific project for the festival. I contacted Mojang and the Creator Minecraft Marcus Notch Personsson, so that they supported my scientific project for teachers, and they immediately agreed to send a parcel with Minecraft necessary through DHL. I also told the creators of your intentions to make an educational product for Finnish teachers from Minecraft; I thought that I was working in which I was working could become a representative of Minecraft for Finnish schools. The founder of Minecraft then said: "I have no idea what it means, but let's try."

At the same time, one American teacher, Joel Levin, began to lead his blog on Tumblr, where described the use of Minecraft on his lessons. This blog has become very popular on the network - among the teachers community, at least. I contacted him to offer cooperation. We phoned in Skype and decided that it would be a joint business. Within 8 months after the call, we have prepared a package of documents for the company's foundation, concluded a contract with Mojang, and finally met in New York. We did not have money with the exception of several social grants from the Finnish government, therefore we developed almost from scratch.

It all started it all.

You got a startup - when you have nothing at start, except good idea. Let's return to your idea. You mentioned that Minecraft liked the teachers, but they did not know anything about him. How were you going to teach teachers to teach with Minecraft?

We are in the company now 12 people. Of course, we have no opportunity to drive to schools in the world and show Minecraft teachers. Logical output - online teacher training program.

Minecraft is beautiful in that teachers do not need to know the technology or even be an expert in the game, because children know it all without them. What should I help teachers - this is to form a special game thinking. We wanted teachers to know what kind of goals they can achieve with the help of Minecraft, that specifically, they need to be done to involve schoolchildren in the study of the subject or in the dialogue - at the same time, without having to run their own game server without the need to start the game fan.

Minecraft launches completely new interaction mechanics between the teacher and the class in the lesson.

Teachers in many countries - and this, in my opinion, the problem - remain a translator of information; The teacher says - students listen. It should not be. Pupils must learn to drive information into their heads.

How to change it? Look: as a rule, teachers are experts in the technologies that they use at school. They are the lords of the textbooks, and it is they who give out instructions on which page to open it and read. They do all the disciples.

When Minecraft comes to the class, the teachers do not know anything about him, because they are usually not playing in it. Thus, the students become experts, and this is a huge plus platform. At least in this one aspect of academic work by the hosts of the situation are students.

Teachers often think: "Well, fine, I launched Minecraft in the lesson, gave a job, and what, I no longer need?". Do you imagine that 25 third-graders can independently develop a general strategy for solving any gaming task? Without a teacher, his help and tips in the search for solutions could not do. This is just the most important role of the teacher. Minecraft is not a way to distract in class, they say, you, kids, play, and I will check the mail. On the contrary, it requires even more teacher involving in the classroom.

And how do you see Minecraft? Can it be included in the State Educational Program, or is it rather an addition to it?

Yes, definitely Minecraft can be part of the official curriculum, and more than half of our customers do it - include it in a program on history, biology, geography, mathematics, physics, even physical education.

But I think that the easiest and painless way to start using Minecraft in your curriculum is extracurricular activities. In an informal setting, in a circle after school, see how children play how they behave, which they can. And only then, when the teacher feels confident, you can transfer the experience of Minecraft and on the lesson.

- What is the most memorable example of using Minecraft in school you could call?

There are many magnificent examples of how Minecraft was used in lessons in individual disciplines, but I personally seem to be much more interesting to those related to interdisciplinary tasks - for example, for the development of "digital citizenship" skills. This is a painful topic. For example, you need to talk about copyright on the Internet. For the eleventh, the issue of intellectual property is in such a wording does not seem important. But here if in Minecraft someone burned the building over which he worked for two weeks, it will find a strong emotional response in his soul. For him, this is a digital property, and this example can be remarkable to explain similar things.

Such situations that are not included in the curriculum are universal problems, the issues of society and management - just best and are studied during the game interaction.

Are there examples of interdisciplinary use? We enter the new era of education, when the separation for items will become quite conditional, and mathematics will be closely intertwined, say, with physics. How can Minecraft help in this?

Before that, I talked about Soft Skills - that is, about issues of education, not learning.

Let's imagine that six-graders have begun to study history. They can read about the main events in the textbook, and then go to the world of Minecraft, create and explore there some of the space associated with this era. You can also simulate archaeological excavations, change the landscape depending on climatic conditions and so on, aligning the story and geography. In addition, you can recreate any structures on the scale, applying your knowledge in mathematics and geometry. And in general, in the process of creating peace in Minecraft, a feeling of aesthetics is developing. Well, critical thinking, teamwork and task solving. You can go even further and give another class to explore the worlds created by other guys, and then ask you to write an essay - this is already literature and native speech. And if in English is a foreign language. How much did I have listed the possible items?

In any case, Minecraft is, at least, art, design, modeling and skills of the XXI century.

An old video of 2012, to the lead role of Joel Levin, the first popular Minecraft teacher.

- What do you generally think about gamefice in education? I guess you appreciate this approach ...

Why do you think so? I would not say that. Gymification is an extremely extensive topic that has many applications, and, unfortunately, not only useful. For example, an honorable board is the last thing I would use at school. The board of honor and ratings are always competitiveness, and the class is a team and collaboration. I would not want to create a competitive atmosphere inside the class. If this competition between classes or between schools is sense; But the competition between individuals only harms.

I also do not like the idea of \u200b\u200bpumping points and achievements as motivation. If at all at all look at the Minecraft game strategy in the framework of the game theory, we will see that this game has no goal. No purpose that someone put for a player. But each player puts his own.

Minecraft for school is valuable not at all game elements in the usual sense. It is valuable for the possibility of combining the digital and real world. This is an interesting environment for children, where they can interact and give fantasy will. This is not a gamefice, this is the use of educational purposes.

Now in most countries a classroom education system is used; Including in Finland. It becomes clear that this is not the best system of organization of the educational process that needs change. How do you think this game is able to change the existing system, or will it remain only in its element?

I think we can learn a lot from the process of creating games - in the inner mechanics of the game, in gaming motivation, in gaming history and plot. The game for a child is always something interesting, complicated and grateful. Games give a unique research experience.

Games change the paradigm of knowledge. Many parents worry that their children play too much - and this is a normal anxiety. Personally, I would not want my children in school only and deal with what they played. But I am sure that games create a certain bridge between rest / entertainment at home and school training. Moreover, this is a two-way process: with the help of games, training becomes more exciting; And also with the help of the game at school, the child hops his player skills, learns to behave online, communicate with other people.

And what other games, useful for educational purposes, could you call? As a child, I was a fan of Civilization, and still remember the capitals of all countries thanks to her. Do you have such examples, in addition to Minecraft?

You know, by and large, the game does not cope with the stream of information that is in the modern world. In order to train details, games are completely ineffective. The same CIVILIZATION teaches a lot, and with this very small. Spend you 500 hours in Civilization - more historical facts and personalities than there is there, you will not know. Yes, she "hits" strategic and critical thinking, but in the context of obtaining new information such a game is ineffective.

Wait, and what do we need from school? We have Internet - knowledge and information is always at hand. Is the task of the school remains saturation of information?

In the perfect world - no. But educational programs that exist in our real world require the study of huge information arrays. To our happiness, finally appear and requirements for the development of skills and competencies. So in the perfect world, we would devote a large amount of time on the development of such skills, playing games and implementing our own projects; And in reality, the teacher for the teacher remains the most effective method of rapid and affordable submission of the necessary information. This is still the responsibility of the teacher - to convey the knowledge of the knowledge program. If the teacher gives 500 hours to teach 500 units of information, he cannot afford to devote 50 hours to the game to explore only 5 units.

several training materials for teachers. These materials are taught correctly use their teaching energy. There are developed introductory classes - literally an hour to see along with children on the basics of the gameplay, duck in the menu, try the main actions, and most importantly - remind you that all this is just a game that allows us to perform quite certain things . It is very important to think about how you can associate the usual educational environment - books, textbooks and the Internet with the Minecraft environment. If you are in Minecraft with children, create a model of a circulatory system, be sure that neither you nor they will never forget her structure. At the same time, it is important to carry out a parallel with the textbook - that's the same blood system over which we worked with you. And what we spoke about earlier - interdisciplinary projects. Each such activity in the game should turn into a project, presentation, command work. This should not be in the game.

But in general, everything is simple. How to start working with Minecraft? You need to ask your students that they think about this, and then start work. There is no right way to do it. There is incorrect: when you create a game space instead of children, and then just run them there. So should not be their world.