This week I learned that some people are not meant to play Minecraft at certain times or ever. I also learned that while I understand most technology and a lot of games, Minecraft is not one of them. That being said though, I do realize after the last week that Minecraft could be effectively integrated into the classroom and be a good learning tool for students whether I understand it or not, because before this week I would have been totally against it.
I was able to find a lot of websites that provided different worlds and assignments for students to work on during math to sharpen different skills. Actually a lot of them are the skills that my seventh grade math students struggle with and out of the kids I teach these seven are the ones who are so excited for the fact that I even mentioned the word Minecraft in class, so maybe this will help them if I can ever figure it out. I feel like in order to really use it in the classroom I need to be able to have some kind of understanding of the game and how to accomplish the tasks if they get stuck.
While I feel like I have no idea of how to actually incorporate Minecraft effectively in my classroom, I did enjoy reading other people’s ideas in their blogs and different articles about it throughout the week. I also really liked making the comic strip and showed it to my kids and they actually thought it was kind of funny, so I feel like I was successful in some way. I’m looking forward to next week, because last week really wasn’t my strongest moments in a class as far as figuring out what I should write or even what to write since my Minecraft past is zero.
I was able to find a lot of websites that provided different worlds and assignments for students to work on during math to sharpen different skills. Actually a lot of them are the skills that my seventh grade math students struggle with and out of the kids I teach these seven are the ones who are so excited for the fact that I even mentioned the word Minecraft in class, so maybe this will help them if I can ever figure it out. I feel like in order to really use it in the classroom I need to be able to have some kind of understanding of the game and how to accomplish the tasks if they get stuck.
While I feel like I have no idea of how to actually incorporate Minecraft effectively in my classroom, I did enjoy reading other people’s ideas in their blogs and different articles about it throughout the week. I also really liked making the comic strip and showed it to my kids and they actually thought it was kind of funny, so I feel like I was successful in some way. I’m looking forward to next week, because last week really wasn’t my strongest moments in a class as far as figuring out what I should write or even what to write since my Minecraft past is zero.