Considering Minecraft for Your Classroom? 12 Outstanding Resources to help you make your decision

Considering Minecraft in your classroom or just want to know what the buzz is all about? 

Check out these 12 outstanding resources!

I'm preparing for our GHO tonight Minecraft in the Classroom -- Why? .. Why Not? --  and I'll be including this post in the show notes.


Brain-based research

1. Can gaming change education? Brain research has answers. ecampus news, March 12, 2014.

Mentions:

• Moving Learning Games Forward, Paper  from the Education Arcade, MIT
• Policy Brief: Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children’s Learning and Health, from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
• Why Gaming Could be the Future of Education Scientific American (preview)

2. A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool, Judy Wills, M.D., April 14, 2011.

Google Scholar curated results

3. Minecraft, beyond construction and survival by ACM (Assn for Computing Machinery)

Digital Library, 2014.

4. Teaching Scientific Concepts Using a Virtual World--Minecraft, ERIC, Short, Daniel

Teaching Science, v58 n3 p55-58 Sep 2012.

Web reviews and articles

5. Commonsense Media review of Minecraft.

6. Minecraft or MinecraftEdu at School? Pros, Cons, and What it's Great For - Graphite Reviews and Ratings, September 24, 2013.

7. Minecraft in Schools, with curricular links, by Ian Keane, January 17, 2013.

8. How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving - Ask a Tech Teacher, April, 2014.

9. Beyond 'Screen Time': What Minecraft Teaches Kids - The Atlantic, April 28, 2014.

10. Should teachers use Minecraft in our classrooms? - BBC, June 20, 2014 (video briefly addresses the concern about addiction)

Videos

11. Is Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool? from PBS Idea Channel.

(See the great feedback in the comments)
12. Using Minecraft as an Educational Tool from Edutopia.

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Check out our hangout below, with +Shane Asselstine, +Stephen Elford, +Michelle Carlson Colte and +Rachel Armstrong discussing why they think Minecraft belongs in the classroom.  Watch live at 7PM HST, or later.

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