I'd love to give hisstory lessons (Get it?) to kids with minecraft. Imagine how cool it 'd be to walk around a Roman city, to learn about the Roman customs etc. I'm sure I'd find it cool
kaiparrish96 Not really. There are a lot of great tools to build big stuff, and not all buildings need interior. Also, having expirience in building cities in the Roman style helps as well. Plus, 8 days isn't too bad, unless you're talking about 8x24 hours
That sounds so cool to me! I would have loved having a teacher who taught this way! Kids imaginations are limitless & engaging them in things they are already interested in as a Teaching tool is, in my opinion, an Endless Opportunity!
I learned from Minecraft a lot about Geology. I actually found out that one of my close classmates plays the game too when we both knew the same things in Geology class, which we knew from Minecraft, for example, how is Obsidian created (when hot lava cools very quickly, that is by touching water in the game), and that Diamonds are created very deep inside earth.
I'm a physical geographer and I am thinking about researching how minecraft influences students' understanding of landforms and natural resources. Thanks for serving as an example that it was true for at least one person! :)
I study geology at university. Cool. I remember in high school I sucked at chemistry and the teacher asked how steel was made to me probably thinking I didn't know the answer. I said iron ore and coal because I was an obsessive runescape player. Everyone in the class looked at me like what how did you know that lol and the teacher walked off not amused that i knew the answer.
Technically everything is learning. Pokèmon has type advantages, strategies, and story, while Minecraft has math, redstone mechanics, and more. Horror games teach us to cope with terrors and reactions, while games like Flight Control HD teaches us organization and reactions.
I just want to say that over the years Minecraft has become more than a game. It is a game, yes, but more than that it's a world builder. Especially in recent versions, which have added the ability to not just use Minecraft as a game, but to enable the creation of games. Who here knows about Spleef, Missile Defense, and any number of the party games that have been made? Heck, they've even set up a barebones MOBA using Minecraft mechanics...if anything it's both a game and a development kit all in one!
The trick is to create a learning experience that people dont know is a learning experience. I have played Minecraft for a while, got my 6yo into it. Helps him with his reading, writing, creativity, teamwork, planning... etc. Then I discovered Kerbal Space Program. It is actual rocket science! I have seen some serious math behind this game, learning to plan orbits, structure, symmetry, thrust to weight ratios, air and gravity drag, and soo much more. It reminds me of Stargate Universe where they embed an ancient equation the best minds couldnt figure out into a game as a complicated challenge, and let someone figure it out. Prize was a ill fated trip to another planet to see what the calculation actually did.
My school just asked me to help my computer teachers to build the PC's that we are gonna use. At first I thought that we were going to use Pentiums and crap. But then when I entered the room, there were Core i5 4670k's and GTX 650ti's. Holy crap, we were building budget gaming PC's xD
I belive the computer bit, just not that they asked a little kid helping them building a computer when they could have choosen a proffesional IT technician that knows what he's talking about
1: 13 years old still counts as a kid 2: The risk of destroying 100's, even 1000's of dollars worth of equipment is awfully high when it comes to electronics... 3: IT Techs knows stuff that you'll never know about computers unless you train to be one yourself.
I've learned so much from Minecraft.. Lol.. I never cared about social studies before I started playing Minecraft and then there I was teaching my family members about bee-lining..
neverdigup she. started. playing. Computer games at the Age of 3?! I got a Gameboy Color on my 6th birthday and I always thought of that as very very early when looking back at it, but I guess thats totally standard now. Long live Generation digitality!
neverdigup Hey, my sister is six and we build structures together on multiplayer Minecraft. She actually can build better than an average six year old playing MC. And she's been playing it since she was four.
My daughter and I LOVE Minecraft. She's 8 and learns so much from the game. We play both survival (safe mode) and creative. Its really opened my eyes up to how creative she is and all with her own mind. Then there's the additional learning with all the crafting you need to do on survival etc. Crafting her own tools with what she has mined and placed in the furnace. It's vast the amount that can be learnt from this game. A great tool for all ages, with being able to change to safe mode also therefore no creepy creepers! :) Well done Minecraft creators for creating a game which covers so many educational subjects, apart from physical education of course! Maybe the next Minecraft update will be Minecraft Kinnect! haha :D
Thank you for this video. I have been using MinecraftEdu and Minecraft PE with my technology students and as after school clubs for the past 2 years. This year we will be integrating more Minecraft into core subjects as personal projects that align with NC State Standards. I know Lucas Gillispie has been using Minecraft in school for years and he has also used World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2. Games in education (gbl) is taking something students are already engaged in and leveraging it for education. Keep the fun and add learning. No chocolate on broccoli here. I am also a member of a World of Warcraft guild that is made up of educators from across the US and a couple of people of Australia. Check out our G+ community Inevitable Betrayal or look us up in World of Warcraft - Sisters of Elune server. Oh and by the way we are a Horde guild. FOR THE HORDE!
TernerBot A lot to do with economy! Auction houses as well as normal trade and inflation have lead to it being one of the largest virtual economies. Very interesting, i suggest trying the Game Theory video on it.
Actually, I've seen that before (I'm a sub to them). I guess I kinda looked over that part lol. but still, that seems a biiit too far-fetched. I felt like what mat-pat talked about with WoW was basically all you could learn from that, plus there are games that are more useful (and cheap) for learning economics.
I *WISH* we had this back when I was in homeschool and college that I recently finished! Man, it would've wiped away so many restless nights (and probably my self-proclaimed PTSD).
Just go back to school. *Teacher:* "Ummm... M. Agrawal, how old exactly are you?" *You:* "I'm totally ten, can't you tell, now shut up and start teaching." *Your kid:* "Dude, you're embarrassing me!" *You:* "I don't know you, other kid my age, like totally lol lmao whatsapp. We could so be friends"
+Stephen Waldron 1) haha 2) I am not ten 3) I meant that it would happen in my future (You should have understood that. But you are way too immature to understand that I think).
vandan agrawal lol, I know. It's supposed to be you as an adult basically sneaking back into school just to play mcedu at school, and trying to convince the teacher that you're young enough to be there. I should fix it to make it more apparent, if it was misunderstood, srry.
JockeyKing Is Awesome I am not just talking of minecraft. Didn't u see how he mentions that video games, not only minecraft, can be used in the future for education.
Minecraft is very versatile, I like the idea of it used in education. But I believe some games in general do have a lot to offer a developing mind. MMORPGs can develop people skills. It can teach you how to communicate directions and ideas, form groups, and collectivly overcome challenges. FPS games can develop reaction speed, hand eye cordination, and also enhance your critical thinking. Good FPS players quickly evaluate their perfomance in order to correct any mistakes in the future.
I actually found a cool trick in Oregan Trails. Whenever I played it the trick was your initial funds being spent on cattle, salt and necisary medicine and water. The cattle being a main driving point in trade later to sustain funds for the travel. The cattle allowed me to cross the rivers, mud slides or whatever was in my way due to their large size making it easy to pull my wagon. Whenever hungry a single cattle could be removed then salted for rations. Medicine for the constant threat of sickness and water for duh drinking. Using this trick I was almost always able to survive the trail... Cept when random Native American groups came and butchered my cattle and family... Later plans spent less on cattle and more on guns for the whole family... Really loved that old strategy game.
Yeah, let's just forget about the last 5000 years of development in academic disciplines. I'm a tech native, and I prefer digging through text books, and indexes. It builds patients, and discipline which is a key ingredient in developing advanced creative solutions to complex problems. Video games do have their place. Certain topics, and exercises can benefit from video games. However, a physics lab is more accurately conducted in real life, with the guidance of a manual. I feel it's a stretch to say minecraft or video games are the ULTIMATE educational tool. "The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all." - Bill Nye
We mainly use things like weighted pressure plates to do math and command blocks to learn about variables, its really simple math but it is more entertaining than learning out of the book and it is also easier to get interested in! I like it!
I love at how at 4:10 there is a kid in the background with flint and steel just burning everything while he's talking about using it more in schools! Haha great video
To an extend (HEAR ME OUT) it does teach you a bit about the makes and models of guns, the importance of team cooperation, and how easy it is to get killed in war. Although for actual education i think Arma 2 would be better for that subject.
Dragonborn Dovahkiin or planetside 2. that game ALONE has helped better understand how LEADER SHIP works. check it out. it's free, and with top notch graphics. learning curve is pretty steep though, but it's worth the effort after level 10 or 15.
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This was highly informative and somewhat inspiring. Thanks for making this video. I think Minecraft is an incredibly powerful tool that should be utilized in education. Even as a base game, right out of the box, you're forced to not only use critical thinking skills but also deal with resource management. With the mods out there, especially ones that allow you to script, make the game invaluable in a learning environment!
Old video, I know, but I thought I'd comment anyway. Gamification is not the solution to better education. What you can learn in a game like mincraft or a series like Vikings pales in comparison to an an actual informational resource. The purpose of games is always to entertain. While you can learn what diorite is from minecraft, 95% of your actual time is spent on superfluous repititive activities like mining. Yes, games have been proven to improve things like lateral thinking and hand-eye coordination, but only up to 1 hour a day, and not for teaching actual information.
Another thing that's pretty cool about video games as teaching tools is that they can teach very unique conceptual skills. The big example of this is Portal, but plenty of puzzle games take straightforward mechanics and teach complicated maneuvers by building them bit by bit until they become almost second nature. Games like Crush, The Swapper, Braid, and other such mechanics-focused puzzle games are incredibly good at building a player's skill up from nothing, to the point that they can perform an intricate, multi-step, and sometimes even time-sensitive process as if it's the simplest thing in the world. That kind of power is, in my opinion, the greatest largely untapped potential of video games: teaching distinct skills through entertaining and challenging play, and making play and experimentation the cornerstones of learning and developing skills.
Eeh. You could make a very similar argument about a very wide range of games. I think games have the potential to be AMAZING educational tools, yes. If you can hold your students' attention, the possibilities are endless, and that is the root of any improvements you're going to see. Minecraft is just so flexible because it is so devoid of direction. Having a narrower focus than "DO ANYTHING" doesn't make a bad game OR a less effective instructional tool - it just makes it more specifically tailored to some things than others. Which is useful.
I was playing assassins creed and there are quite a few words said in Italian and I was thinking that if we were taught a language a little bit at a time in the story/campaign throughout several games with increased language difficulty it would make learning a language so much easier!
I'm taking a course on how playing and games are actually important parts of development for all ages. This would be a perfect example of what my professor's taught the class. Games teach just as much as classes and sometimes more, if a child didn't play them they'd be pretty deficient in major skills like social interaction, problem solving, and even discipline. That's what I read anyway, sounds pretty legit.
YES! This is what I've been talking about and in the Teaching and Technology class I am taking at University! There is so much that we can do with video games to create amazing 21st century classrooms, ESPECIALLY with Minecraft!
I often think "wouldn't it be cool if the boring repetitive admin computer work I do for my job, was turned into a video game?" I play a lot of casual time management games like farmville and the like, which mechanically have a lot in common with the stuff I do at work. The only differences are a) at work the software programs are grey and dull, not colourful & vibrant like games - and - b) at work there is no visible score to motivate me and give me a sense of achievement. On some of the projects I am given, I'll make some kind of score tracking spreadsheet in Excel then jazz it up with some colourful graphs. But it's no where near as engaging as the video games I enjoy. All I'm saying is, I think it would be awesome if some tech savey individuals created a company that made game-like admin software for us office-workers that are bored out of our minds.
Video games are not only the future of education, but also the future of data collection. The concept is simple, in an MMO type setting, one gives Player the capabilities to do something like, say, trading and then from the simple trading options players soon end up replicating the whole world economy. Then, since it's entirely digital, administrators can carefully watch exactly what when and where everything occurs and then use those patterns to predict what actually goes on in the real world. It's like Game Theory (mathematical study of life, not an analytic youtube channel) in a game.
I lead a Summer Camp at a University, due to licensing issues we are required to use MinecraftEDU and host it off Campus computers. I was a little bit unfamiliar at first. But there is really a lot of cool stuff with it! It also gets bundles with ComputerCraft not to mention most ForgeMods seem to work well with it.
I think it's a beautiful idea, personally, and I can see good schools working toward it. Autonomy-based learning is the BEST kind of learning. If all my classes were a mixture of dialectal discussion and Minecraft I bet I'd be better off. And I'm never bored playing Minecraft. Especially not with others.
I think that you are totally right, because minecraft is basically the model of how the world works. Like the gravity thing, how to survive, how to make glass (and more) and finally basically: how the oreing (spelled that wrong) process works.
I've seen my younger brothers playing that. Roblox allows you to type actual code though, in lua. Players often teach themselves or look at wikis to get help with programming, it's a really cool concept - self educating.
PLEASE let this happen to educate kids in future. Please. This is just...Better. I mean I remember things in games better than other stuff (Not always a good thing) but please make this happen
I got so excited when I saw this video. I've always thought of Minecraft as a great tool for education, and wondered why people weren't using it as such. Except that they ARE! And that makes me very happy person.
Hell yeah Minecraft is educational! (I showed my teacher this video now she lets my hole class play Minecraft now and then) And are grades went alot higher.
this is totally true! i think that games are the future of schools, and no i'm not saying this because i'm a gamer, i'm saying this because games are made to be emersive, to get the player to get into the game, to make the player want to play it and want to come back to it. if one genius somewhere can create a school based game, that is educational to all extents and is both fun, extensive and emersive, I would give it all the attention i can from the school etc because it's a great idea!
Minecraft is very good for teaching ecology and resource management, organization, building design, prioritization, farming, creative design, time management, typing, getting to sleep on time, economics, and many more. With mods, the game can teach basically anything. Not all the mods are conducive to learning, but many are placebos for real life occurrences such as electricity as alternative power sources. It depends on the mod.
Dont forget that lego is good for training the brain and this game is pretty much lego, and working with space and redstone has singlehandedly given my back my love for math(yes i know i am a nerd, but not having to study for exams is awesome)
Minecraft is a wonderful and brilliant teaching method WORLDWIDE. It also promotes problem solving, imagination, and COMMON SENSE. Every school should use Minecraft as a learning tool.
Video games appeal to kids, and a lot of schools now are handing out Laptops and iPads at school. It would be cool for a teacher to set up a server, and then explain something like gravity to all the students in the server. If you're gonna learn, you might as well make it fun!
Another thing is teaching architecture: give sizes, dimensions, and guidelines to build simple-advanced constructions ALSO, students could have projects to make nice houses (inside, outside, and support of the construction [for example support beams])
Games ARE the future of Education, and once VR becomes totally immersive, so will the educational experience. Thanx for the Great idea and for a great video!!
This was a vocalized research paper, and it was fantastic. You did a really great job, and I completely agree. It seems like a great springboard for computer science.
I guess, you could build a set and reenact battles from the past. Minecraft is one of those games that could be used for learning, since every block is a cubic meter, you can learn how to scale things, like building the Eiffel tower, or a small town on a larger scale so kids can get the just of how big the cities are.
Yeah I agree! We students of this generation and the next will not learn to our fullest extent by doing paperwork and lectures. Technology is evolving with these next generations and the educational standpoints of the past will not stay for long. If you want ua to learn as well as we can, som't force us to do boring paperwork and packets! Videogames like minecraft should be used to teach because it give us something exciting! The more excited we are to learn, the better we will learn. Like plz!
Devin Hendrix those things dont even exist and its no as simple as kiling a cow in 2 hits and get the meat. you gotta cut open the cow and take all the intestines
Minecraftedu is great way to get around the limitations of a standard classroom. In minecraft there is an infinite supply of materials, and the laws of physics don't always have to apply.
Of course video games can be, and currently ARE educational. At least to a certain point. People are forgetting that us humans, are also animals, and the way animals learn, interact, and essentially "work" (I.E gather/hunt food, expand territory etc) is all in a fun game type way. They enjoy what they do, because they are hard-wired to do so to survive. Making our world more serious and mathematically/labor type survival needs makes us miserable, and stressed. A lion hunting isn't stressed unless he loses the hunt, as much as you don't stress while playing a game unless you lose! On the other hand WE are always stressed by learning, working, and even simply thinking about such things, because we do them without the concept of enjoying them, and only in a straightforward unenjoyable way. Teaching with a game that is enjoyable to the student will increase that student's grades simply by the fact that the student's enjoyment helped remember the information, and increased the probability of wanting more. More information through playing and experiencing a use for said information.
I bet all of the people that are dying yes are just saying that because that want to play video games, I would actually also say yes. For a good reason to, the actual educational things in a "game" is really crazy because as he said you can use those mechanics to measure types of dynamics based on physics and also use some geometry in making things in the game. The schools should get in this now!
U should totally make this a school thing, I personally love minecraft and can't believe its actually in schools. I will defiantly talk to my teachers about it.
MINECRAFT...in school...AWESOME! That is actually a fair point, not only can you experiment with everything, you LEARN. It's the ultimate educational tool!
Hell, Minecraft can be great for people who want to get into game design. It does a great job of showing how to engage the player in an enormous, totally immersive world.
The reason mine craft works well as a teaching game is that the kids don't see it as "work" Making the learning appearance much more enjoyable, all the teacher has to do is ride alone on what the game gives you and you would be able to teach the kid with out them even knowing there learning. Genius. :0 Why this is not being used in more ways is kinda mind boggling. I think we should go all the way to do this type of learning.
When I was in grade 6 (1993?) my home room classroom was the computer class. It was filled with commodor64 computers which we would often get a chance to play various games on. The teacher however had a PC at his desk and at some point installed the original Simcity on it which we got to play during lunch time. I was the only one already familiar with the game though since I had it at home already, so I felt kinda special.
Actually, once for a project worth 30% of my grade, me and my friend made a book and events using redstone (I'm the only redstoner out of my grade) and building events that happend. We got 110/100 on our thing and the thing that motivated both of us was... Hanging out playing video games. We both play video games like 6 hours a day so spending 17 over 3 days wasn't too much. I feel like most schools dont go in too heavily with computers but the world today is run with computers. Just my thought.
Came for the beard, stayed for the.... what was going on again? Oh, right! I'd love to work on the development of educational game systems. This is something my hubby and I have been thinking about a lot. I will have to check out that book!
The assimilation of knowledge shouldn't be the only goal of schooling. Schooling also teaches you values, skills, coping mechanisms, etc... Learning to deal with the frustration of using 10 year old outdated computers or learning how to listen even when the presentation isn't very engaging (or at least be able to give the impression that you are listening) are valuable skills. Some of the most valuable things I learnt at school can from the boring, frustrating, system that it is : things like how to BS your way through stupid forms, or how to deal with having an annoying attention-seeker sitting next to you while your trying to work, or to persevere even if you don't understand the first time, or that often it is easier to "beg forgiveness rather than ask permission", etc....
I think Little Big Planet 2 is a great way of learning as well. where you can create literally anything. with Electronics such as: AND gates, OR Gates, toggles and much more!
I've actually designed a class for my programming teacher about logic gates using minecraft. Where they first learn how they work and then get to build their own logic gates.
An example of this was, during the Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas presidential debates, Douglas talked on his point for three hours, and Lincoln, knowing he would take the same amount of time, as well as an hour at the end for closing remarks, encouraged the audience to go home for lunch and return afterwards. The audience agreed, and the debate reopened in an hour or so. That's--count them--seven hours of verbal debate! Audiences today can't focus on a ten-minute speech.
i hope my school will use minecraft as an educational tool, also a friend of mine used minecraft for a project at school where he needed to design a building. I hope i will get to do that in the future too
I actually learned English from video games, so yeah! The game that initiated me in the land of English was the second of the Gothic series. Best Game Ever! I still play it today as a reminder of my humble beginnings...
Honestly, I think video games COULD be the future of education... i mean lets face it, many of us were (are) incredibly obsessed with video games. We already have games that teach the principles of things like flying an airplane or commanding teams of people. Imagine if you had a strategic game that inadvertently taught you petroleum engineering or surgery? While there is still the practical application, the principles will have been nailed down since childhood. Downright instinctual.
Games only offer tangential learning benefits and provide a place to practice soft skills like spatial reasoning and sometimes logical planning. As far as being a source of knowledge, Minecraft has to be set up or modded to provide that. All it will do is add another layer to the classroom and possibly kill the reason why Minecraft is engaging. I play Minecraft a bit too much for what's deemed healthy, but I'd find the idea of playing Minecraft in a class setting to be a horrible boring idea (unless it was me goofing off doing my own thing, like... not learning). Minecraft's fun because you have freedom to do what you please, in a education setting the teacher needs to be able to control your attention (if you think about it we kinda teach kids against their will don't we, for their own good of course). Meaning for Minecraft to be an effective tool you need to remove that engaging element. You'd turn Minecraft in to a chore. You'd need things like: A method to restrict camera control and movement, control over mob spawning, player interaction to stop students punching eachother, the teacher needs a built in fun killing switch to turn Minecraft in to School. That's not to say the very boiled down idea of minecraft as a simulated space has no merit, but MINECRAFT as it is has very minimal value. TBH something like Garry's mod would be a better learning tool, has programming, better physics than MC, and better means for creating props. Problem with Garry's mod is that it takes a good long time to get proficient with to make effective things. But if you acquired that talent it would be way better and potent then Minecraft as an educational tool, however it still suffers the same problems I mentioned Minecraft having, which was for it to be a good teaching tool you need a "Fun kill" button.
Playing minecraft with mods like redpower or computercraft requiers a lots of logic and thinking. Creating of redstone schemes too. So if you dont play minecraft casually and creating somethink inside its pretty good! :D
Games would be a fun addition to the class. Although I would suspect that people wont play games as much in their spare time if they've been playing games all day at school. A mix of traditional teaching and games would probably be best.
in my research into redstone in minecraft i was able to understand computers whereas when directly researching computers which i had done before i ever played minecraft i was confused and it made no sense, so in that respect it was an amazing educational tool to me for computers
Now if only the computers at my school can run Minecraft...
Same here. They can barely run a crappy typing program....
I speak Latvian !!! And now i feel so proud of my country !
Mind = blown. At first, I was hesitant letting my son play Minecraft, but i'm convinced now.
I'd love to give hisstory lessons (Get it?) to kids with minecraft. Imagine how cool it 'd be to walk around a Roman city, to learn about the Roman customs etc. I'm sure I'd find it cool
it would but cmon a whole roman city it'll take like 8 days to build it
kaiparrish96 Not really. There are a lot of great tools to build big stuff, and not all buildings need interior. Also, having expirience in building cities in the Roman style helps as well. Plus, 8 days isn't too bad, unless you're talking about 8x24 hours
minecraftedu.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wonderful_World_of_Humanities
There you go.
GREAT 8 out of 8 m8
That sounds so cool to me! I would have loved having a teacher who taught this way! Kids imaginations are limitless & engaging them in things they are already interested in as a Teaching tool is, in my opinion, an Endless Opportunity!
I learned from Minecraft a lot about Geology.
I actually found out that one of my close classmates plays the game too when we both knew the same things in Geology class, which we knew from Minecraft, for example, how is Obsidian created (when hot lava cools very quickly, that is by touching water in the game), and that Diamonds are created very deep inside earth.
lol what ? :DD
create hell gate please :D
I'm a physical geographer and I am thinking about researching how minecraft influences students' understanding of landforms and natural resources. Thanks for serving as an example that it was true for at least one person! :)
AmallieGames This is kinda old but Minecraft was the first place I heard about Biomes
I study geology at university. Cool. I remember in high school I sucked at chemistry and the teacher asked how steel was made to me probably thinking I didn't know the answer. I said iron ore and coal because I was an obsessive runescape player. Everyone in the class looked at me like what how did you know that lol and the teacher walked off not amused that i knew the answer.
Technically everything is learning. Pokèmon has type advantages, strategies, and story, while Minecraft has math, redstone mechanics, and more. Horror games teach us to cope with terrors and reactions, while games like Flight Control HD teaches us organization and reactions.
He didn't mention redstone ;_;
Ikr
Guy Numbers or command blocks
I just want to say that over the years Minecraft has become more than a game. It is a game, yes, but more than that it's a world builder. Especially in recent versions, which have added the ability to not just use Minecraft as a game, but to enable the creation of games. Who here knows about Spleef, Missile Defense, and any number of the party games that have been made? Heck, they've even set up a barebones MOBA using Minecraft mechanics...if anything it's both a game and a development kit all in one!
What you described it exactly the reason minecraft is ruined.
JulianDankDailyShowsMemes How so?
The trick is to create a learning experience that people dont know is a learning experience. I have played Minecraft for a while, got my 6yo into it. Helps him with his reading, writing, creativity, teamwork, planning... etc.
Then I discovered Kerbal Space Program. It is actual rocket science! I have seen some serious math behind this game, learning to plan orbits, structure, symmetry, thrust to weight ratios, air and gravity drag, and soo much more.
It reminds me of Stargate Universe where they embed an ancient equation the best minds couldnt figure out into a game as a complicated challenge, and let someone figure it out. Prize was a ill fated trip to another planet to see what the calculation actually did.
My school just asked me to help my computer teachers to build the PC's that we are gonna use. At first I thought that we were going to use Pentiums and crap. But then when I entered the room, there were Core i5 4670k's and GTX 650ti's. Holy crap, we were building budget gaming PC's xD
Yeah, sure they did...
I belive the computer bit, just not that they asked a little kid helping them building a computer when they could have choosen a proffesional IT technician that knows what he's talking about
1: 13 years old still counts as a kid
2: The risk of destroying 100's, even 1000's of dollars worth of equipment is awfully high when it comes to electronics...
3: IT Techs knows stuff that you'll never know about computers unless you train to be one yourself.
Huh, odd
James Correia We all did it together.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!! GO VIDEO GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've learned so much from Minecraft.. Lol.. I never cared about social studies before I started playing Minecraft and then there I was teaching my family members about bee-lining..
If I were a teacher, I'd use Assassin's Creed to teach history.
And get fired.
Worth it
My Humanities professor recommends playing AC before the class.
While not a perfect idea it does have the possibility of getting people excited about history.
Nah, Call of Duty: WW2 is more educational
My daughter is 6 years old and has been playing Minecraft half her life The way she goes at it she should have her Masters Degree by now!
neverdigup she. started. playing. Computer games at the Age of 3?! I got a Gameboy Color on my 6th birthday and I always thought of that as very very early when looking back at it, but I guess thats totally standard now. Long live Generation digitality!
neverdigup Hey, my sister is six and we build structures together on multiplayer Minecraft. She actually can build better than an average six year old playing MC. And she's been playing it since she was four.
she's only 6 WTF
My daughter and I LOVE Minecraft. She's 8 and learns so much from the game. We play both survival (safe mode) and creative. Its really opened my eyes up to how creative she is and all with her own mind. Then there's the additional learning with all the crafting you need to do on survival etc. Crafting her own tools with what she has mined and placed in the furnace. It's vast the amount that can be learnt from this game. A great tool for all ages, with being able to change to safe mode also therefore no creepy creepers! :)
Well done Minecraft creators for creating a game which covers so many educational subjects, apart from physical education of course! Maybe the next Minecraft update will be Minecraft Kinnect! haha :D
i must show this to my teacher
my teacher sent me here also hi its 6 years later lol
Thank you for this video. I have been using MinecraftEdu and Minecraft PE with my technology students and as after school clubs for the past 2 years. This year we will be integrating more Minecraft into core subjects as personal projects that align with NC State Standards. I know Lucas Gillispie has been using Minecraft in school for years and he has also used World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2. Games in education (gbl) is taking something students are already engaged in and leveraging it for education. Keep the fun and add learning. No chocolate on broccoli here. I am also a member of a World of Warcraft guild that is made up of educators from across the US and a couple of people of Australia. Check out our G+ community Inevitable Betrayal or look us up in World of Warcraft - Sisters of Elune server. Oh and by the way we are a Horde guild. FOR THE HORDE!
In what way does WoW have to do with education? The only way I can think of it is maaayyybe some type of fantasy art class.
TernerBot A lot to do with economy! Auction houses as well as normal trade and inflation have lead to it being one of the largest virtual economies. Very interesting, i suggest trying the Game Theory video on it.
Actually, I've seen that before (I'm a sub to them). I guess I kinda looked over that part lol. but still, that seems a biiit too far-fetched. I felt like what mat-pat talked about with WoW was basically all you could learn from that, plus there are games that are more useful (and cheap) for learning economics.
I *WISH* we had this back when I was in homeschool and college that I recently finished! Man, it would've wiped away so many restless nights (and probably my self-proclaimed PTSD).
I will be highly disappointed if my kids get a chance to actually play video games in school. I will be EXTREMELY JEALOUS!!
Just go back to school.
*Teacher:* "Ummm... M. Agrawal, how old exactly are you?"
*You:* "I'm totally ten, can't you tell, now shut up and start teaching."
*Your kid:* "Dude, you're embarrassing me!"
*You:* "I don't know you, other kid my age, like totally lol lmao whatsapp. We could so be friends"
+Stephen Waldron 1) haha
2) I am not ten 3) I meant that it would happen in my future (You should have understood that. But you are way too immature to understand that I think).
vandan agrawal lol, I know. It's supposed to be you as an adult basically sneaking back into school just to play mcedu at school, and trying to convince the teacher that you're young enough to be there. I should fix it to make it more apparent, if it was misunderstood, srry.
Stephen Waldron it should be like "wazup home dawgs ima just play some of this lit minelegos and be dope"
JockeyKing Is Awesome I am not just talking of minecraft. Didn't u see how he mentions that video games, not only minecraft, can be used in the future for education.
Have you made a video on whether or not games are a form of art? I believe they are! If you haven't made one you totally should
please define art.
Daniel Cicero Everything is art, from the earth to the sky. So long as you hear it art will call you.
Daniel Cicero Any creative activity is an art. Music, for example, is the creative arrangement of sounds to communicate ideas, like emotion.
If you think books, movies, and painting/drawing is art... then of course video games are art because they are combinations of all three of those
He actually made one about how Mario could be a form of surrealist art.
Minecraft is very versatile, I like the idea of it used in education. But I believe some games in general do have a lot to offer a developing mind. MMORPGs can develop people skills. It can teach you how to communicate directions and ideas, form groups, and collectivly overcome challenges. FPS games can develop reaction speed, hand eye cordination, and also enhance your critical thinking. Good FPS players quickly evaluate their perfomance in order to correct any mistakes in the future.
My school just got computers with Windows XP on them. lol
i fell really sorry for you
and it´s just yesterday that microsoft stopped giving support for windows xp :3
lol... IKR
How could they get computers with WindowsXP on them
Microsoft stopped selling the operating system with the release of Windows 7.
i think they must have got them the day before
When I grow up I wanna go to Minecraft University!
lol
I actually found a cool trick in Oregan Trails. Whenever I played it the trick was your initial funds being spent on cattle, salt and necisary medicine and water. The cattle being a main driving point in trade later to sustain funds for the travel. The cattle allowed me to cross the rivers, mud slides or whatever was in my way due to their large size making it easy to pull my wagon. Whenever hungry a single cattle could be removed then salted for rations. Medicine for the constant threat of sickness and water for duh drinking. Using this trick I was almost always able to survive the trail... Cept when random Native American groups came and butchered my cattle and family... Later plans spent less on cattle and more on guns for the whole family... Really loved that old strategy game.
Whatever PCs the students were playing on were terrible.
Well what, do you expect the school to afford a i7 4770k for each and every computer, that cpu would run minecraft at 200 fps
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No, I expect them to use a computer that can run MC at 20-30 FPS.
TheWibbledee Well then you could just get a bunch of laptops instead of full blown PC's. I know laptops that can run minecraft and 10-30 FPS.
Yeah, and they are pretty cheap, I think schools can afford them.
Dude that's epic, I get to do projects in minecraft but that's about it.
Yeah, let's just forget about the last 5000 years of development in academic disciplines. I'm a tech native, and I prefer digging through text books, and indexes. It builds patients, and discipline which is a key ingredient in developing advanced creative solutions to complex problems. Video games do have their place. Certain topics, and exercises can benefit from video games. However, a physics lab is more accurately conducted in real life, with the guidance of a manual. I feel it's a stretch to say minecraft or video games are the ULTIMATE educational tool.
"The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all." - Bill Nye
We mainly use things like weighted pressure plates to do math and command blocks to learn about variables, its really simple math but it is more entertaining than learning out of the book and it is also easier to get interested in! I like it!
Garrys mod taught me how to film movies
EzDoomz Daimon The source engine could also be used to teach physics.
Okay, this title was so insane I had to click on this video. What I got was worth the annoying jump cuts.
I love at how at 4:10 there is a kid in the background with flint and steel just burning everything while he's talking about using it more in schools! Haha great video
I'm just waiting for some fanboy to say that we should play COD for educational purposes. Then I will slam my head the my keyboard
Why would you wait for that?
Already seen one, it was worth the broken keyboard.
To an extend (HEAR ME OUT) it does teach you a bit about the makes and models of guns, the importance of team cooperation, and how easy it is to get killed in war. Although for actual education i think Arma 2 would be better for that subject.
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Dragonborn Dovahkiin or planetside 2. that game ALONE has helped better understand how LEADER SHIP works. check it out. it's free, and with top notch graphics. learning curve is pretty steep though, but it's worth the effort after level 10 or 15.
Who else is showing this to their principal?
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Me I would love it
This was highly informative and somewhat inspiring. Thanks for making this video. I think Minecraft is an incredibly powerful tool that should be utilized in education. Even as a base game, right out of the box, you're forced to not only use critical thinking skills but also deal with resource management. With the mods out there, especially ones that allow you to script, make the game invaluable in a learning environment!
Old video, I know, but I thought I'd comment anyway. Gamification is not the solution to better education. What you can learn in a game like mincraft or a series like Vikings pales in comparison to an an actual informational resource. The purpose of games is always to entertain. While you can learn what diorite is from minecraft, 95% of your actual time is spent on superfluous repititive activities like mining. Yes, games have been proven to improve things like lateral thinking and hand-eye coordination, but only up to 1 hour a day, and not for teaching actual information.
The fact that pbsideachannel used Freddiew's VGHS videos makes this video that much more worth watching. Not to mention awesome!
I'd love if more school started using this. It seams like a really fun and engaging way to learn.
Another thing that's pretty cool about video games as teaching tools is that they can teach very unique conceptual skills. The big example of this is Portal, but plenty of puzzle games take straightforward mechanics and teach complicated maneuvers by building them bit by bit until they become almost second nature. Games like Crush, The Swapper, Braid, and other such mechanics-focused puzzle games are incredibly good at building a player's skill up from nothing, to the point that they can perform an intricate, multi-step, and sometimes even time-sensitive process as if it's the simplest thing in the world.
That kind of power is, in my opinion, the greatest largely untapped potential of video games: teaching distinct skills through entertaining and challenging play, and making play and experimentation the cornerstones of learning and developing skills.
Eeh. You could make a very similar argument about a very wide range of games. I think games have the potential to be AMAZING educational tools, yes. If you can hold your students' attention, the possibilities are endless, and that is the root of any improvements you're going to see. Minecraft is just so flexible because it is so devoid of direction. Having a narrower focus than "DO ANYTHING" doesn't make a bad game OR a less effective instructional tool - it just makes it more specifically tailored to some things than others. Which is useful.
I was playing assassins creed and there are quite a few words said in Italian and I was thinking that if we were taught a language a little bit at a time in the story/campaign throughout several games with increased language difficulty it would make learning a language so much easier!
I'm taking a course on how playing and games are actually important parts of development for all ages. This would be a perfect example of what my professor's taught the class. Games teach just as much as classes and sometimes more, if a child didn't play them they'd be pretty deficient in major skills like social interaction, problem solving, and even discipline. That's what I read anyway, sounds pretty legit.
YES! This is what I've been talking about and in the Teaching and Technology class I am taking at University! There is so much that we can do with video games to create amazing 21st century classrooms, ESPECIALLY with Minecraft!
I often think "wouldn't it be cool if the boring repetitive admin computer work I do for my job, was turned into a video game?" I play a lot of casual time management games like farmville and the like, which mechanically have a lot in common with the stuff I do at work. The only differences are a) at work the software programs are grey and dull, not colourful & vibrant like games - and - b) at work there is no visible score to motivate me and give me a sense of achievement.
On some of the projects I am given, I'll make some kind of score tracking spreadsheet in Excel then jazz it up with some colourful graphs. But it's no where near as engaging as the video games I enjoy. All I'm saying is, I think it would be awesome if some tech savey individuals created a company that made game-like admin software for us office-workers that are bored out of our minds.
Video games are not only the future of education, but also the future of data collection. The concept is simple, in an MMO type setting, one gives Player the capabilities to do something like, say, trading and then from the simple trading options players soon end up replicating the whole world economy. Then, since it's entirely digital, administrators can carefully watch exactly what when and where everything occurs and then use those patterns to predict what actually goes on in the real world. It's like Game Theory (mathematical study of life, not an analytic youtube channel) in a game.
I lead a Summer Camp at a University, due to licensing issues we are required to use MinecraftEDU and host it off Campus computers. I was a little bit unfamiliar at first. But there is really a lot of cool stuff with it! It also gets bundles with ComputerCraft not to mention most ForgeMods seem to work well with it.
Engaging and easily understandable and highly customizable content is a great future for education, so yes, Go Minecraft!
I think it's a beautiful idea, personally, and I can see good schools working toward it. Autonomy-based learning is the BEST kind of learning. If all my classes were a mixture of dialectal discussion and Minecraft I bet I'd be better off. And I'm never bored playing Minecraft. Especially not with others.
I think that you are totally right, because minecraft is basically the model of how the world works. Like the gravity thing, how to survive, how to make glass (and more) and finally basically: how the oreing (spelled that wrong) process works.
I've seen my younger brothers playing that. Roblox allows you to type actual code though, in lua. Players often teach themselves or look at wikis to get help with programming, it's a really cool concept - self educating.
PLEASE let this happen to educate kids in future. Please. This is just...Better. I mean I remember things in games better than other stuff (Not always a good thing) but please make this happen
I got so excited when I saw this video. I've always thought of Minecraft as a great tool for education, and wondered why people weren't using it as such. Except that they ARE! And that makes me very happy person.
Hell yeah Minecraft is educational! (I showed my teacher this video now she lets my hole class play Minecraft now and then) And are grades went alot higher.
this is totally true! i think that games are the future of schools, and no i'm not saying this because i'm a gamer, i'm saying this because games are made to be emersive, to get the player to get into the game, to make the player want to play it and want to come back to it. if one genius somewhere can create a school based game, that is educational to all extents and is both fun, extensive and emersive, I would give it all the attention i can from the school etc because it's a great idea!
Minecraft is very good for teaching ecology and resource management, organization, building design, prioritization, farming, creative design, time management, typing, getting to sleep on time, economics, and many more. With mods, the game can teach basically anything. Not all the mods are conducive to learning, but many are placebos for real life occurrences such as electricity as alternative power sources. It depends on the mod.
Playing Minecraft has actually made me better with numbers, as item management is often involved. (such as, 1 log = 8 sticks)
Dont forget that lego is good for training the brain and this game is pretty much lego, and working with space and redstone has singlehandedly given my back my love for math(yes i know i am a nerd, but not having to study for exams is awesome)
Oh, that's a great idea! The co-op mode in Portal 2 is HELLA educational!
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Minecraft is a wonderful and brilliant teaching method WORLDWIDE. It also promotes problem solving, imagination, and COMMON SENSE. Every school should use Minecraft as a learning tool.
Minecraft MUST be an educational game for everyone and it MUST be published at list for every single country all over the world
Video games appeal to kids, and a lot of schools now are handing out Laptops and iPads at school. It would be cool for a teacher to set up a server, and then explain something like gravity to all the students in the server. If you're gonna learn, you might as well make it fun!
Another thing is teaching architecture:
give sizes, dimensions, and guidelines to build simple-advanced constructions
ALSO, students could have projects to make nice houses (inside, outside, and support of the construction [for example support beams])
Games ARE the future of Education, and once VR becomes totally immersive, so will the educational experience.
Thanx for the Great idea and for a great video!!
I love your presentation and happy to see other educators believe in Minecraft. I have done quite a bit in Pocket Edition on my channel
This was a vocalized research paper, and it was fantastic. You did a really great job, and I completely agree. It seems like a great springboard for computer science.
I guess, you could build a set and reenact battles from the past. Minecraft is one of those games that could be used for learning, since every block is a cubic meter, you can learn how to scale things, like building the Eiffel tower, or a small town on a larger scale so kids can get the just of how big the cities are.
Yeah I agree! We students of this generation and the next will not learn to our fullest extent by doing paperwork and lectures. Technology is evolving with these next generations and the educational standpoints of the past will not stay for long. If you want ua to learn as well as we can, som't force us to do boring paperwork and packets! Videogames like minecraft should be used to teach because it give us something exciting! The more excited we are to learn, the better we will learn. Like plz!
Minecraft is a great teaching tool wish my school had it
no its not. how is it educational
It could be.
But I can see it getting abused.
*Cough*Pink Wool*Cough*
*Cough*Animal Killing*Cough*
*Cough*Creepers*Cough*
*Cough*Rage*Cough*
Devin Hendrix those things dont even exist and its no as simple as kiling a cow in 2 hits and get the meat. you gotta cut open the cow and take all the intestines
Minecraftedu is great way to get around the limitations of a standard classroom. In minecraft there is an infinite supply of materials, and the laws of physics don't always have to apply.
Of course video games can be, and currently ARE educational. At least to a certain point. People are forgetting that us humans, are also animals, and the way animals learn, interact, and essentially "work" (I.E gather/hunt food, expand territory etc) is all in a fun game type way. They enjoy what they do, because they are hard-wired to do so to survive. Making our world more serious and mathematically/labor type survival needs makes us miserable, and stressed. A lion hunting isn't stressed unless he loses the hunt, as much as you don't stress while playing a game unless you lose! On the other hand WE are always stressed by learning, working, and even simply thinking about such things, because we do them without the concept of enjoying them, and only in a straightforward unenjoyable way. Teaching with a game that is enjoyable to the student will increase that student's grades simply by the fact that the student's enjoyment helped remember the information, and increased the probability of wanting more. More information through playing and experiencing a use for said information.
I bet all of the people that are dying yes are just saying that because that want to play video games, I would actually also say yes. For a good reason to, the actual educational things in a "game" is really crazy because as he said you can use those mechanics to measure types of dynamics based on physics and also use some geometry in making things in the game. The schools should get in this now!
U should totally make this a school thing, I personally love minecraft and can't believe its actually in schools. I will defiantly talk to my teachers about it.
MINECRAFT...in school...AWESOME! That is actually a fair point, not only can you experiment with everything, you LEARN. It's the ultimate educational tool!
Hell, Minecraft can be great for people who want to get into game design. It does a great job of showing how to engage the player in an enormous, totally immersive world.
The reason mine craft works well as a teaching game is that the kids don't see it as "work" Making the learning appearance much more enjoyable, all the teacher has to do is ride alone on what the game gives you and you would be able to teach the kid with out them even knowing there learning. Genius. :0 Why this is not being used in more ways is kinda mind boggling. I think we should go all the way to do this type of learning.
Exactly.
It's one of the best creations ever.. as good as Lego or Kinects or simple pseudo-electronic logic design.. it's awesome.
The possibilities of what you can get into and out of a game which you thought was just for punching trees are endless!
So is it still a 'video game'? and what is the game?
When I was in grade 6 (1993?) my home room classroom was the computer class. It was filled with commodor64 computers which we would often get a chance to play various games on. The teacher however had a PC at his desk and at some point installed the original Simcity on it which we got to play during lunch time. I was the only one already familiar with the game though since I had it at home already, so I felt kinda special.
Actually, once for a project worth 30% of my grade, me and my friend made a book and events using redstone (I'm the only redstoner out of my grade) and building events that happend. We got 110/100 on our thing and the thing that motivated both of us was... Hanging out playing video games. We both play video games like 6 hours a day so spending 17 over 3 days wasn't too much. I feel like most schools dont go in too heavily with computers but the world today is run with computers. Just my thought.
Came for the beard, stayed for the.... what was going on again? Oh, right! I'd love to work on the development of educational game systems. This is something my hubby and I have been thinking about a lot. I will have to check out that book!
The assimilation of knowledge shouldn't be the only goal of schooling. Schooling also teaches you values, skills, coping mechanisms, etc... Learning to deal with the frustration of using 10 year old outdated computers or learning how to listen even when the presentation isn't very engaging (or at least be able to give the impression that you are listening) are valuable skills. Some of the most valuable things I learnt at school can from the boring, frustrating, system that it is : things like how to BS your way through stupid forms, or how to deal with having an annoying attention-seeker sitting next to you while your trying to work, or to persevere even if you don't understand the first time, or that often it is easier to "beg forgiveness rather than ask permission", etc....
I died laughing, but modders got that tidbit covered ;D
I think Little Big Planet 2 is a great way of learning as well. where you can create literally anything. with Electronics such as: AND gates, OR Gates, toggles and much more!
I would totally support the Common Core movement if we adopted Minecraft as the curriculum to achieve CC standards!
I've actually designed a class for my programming teacher about logic gates using minecraft. Where they first learn how they work and then get to build their own logic gates.
An example of this was, during the Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas presidential debates, Douglas talked on his point for three hours, and Lincoln, knowing he would take the same amount of time, as well as an hour at the end for closing remarks, encouraged the audience to go home for lunch and return afterwards. The audience agreed, and the debate reopened in an hour or so. That's--count them--seven hours of verbal debate! Audiences today can't focus on a ten-minute speech.
i agree some games can be used for education, thank you age of empires, outsmarting history teachers since 6th grade
i hope my school will use minecraft as an educational tool,
also a friend of mine used minecraft for a project at school where he needed to design a building. I hope i will get to do that in the future too
I actually learned English from video games, so yeah! The game that initiated me in the land of English was the second of the Gothic series. Best Game Ever! I still play it today as a reminder of my humble beginnings...
I would say yes, for redstone circuitry, that is. I'm decent at redstone, and it helped me get better at IT at school, so yeah! Thank Minecraft
Absolutely
My religion and video games class used Minecraft to study religious architecture. It was pretty great.
Honestly, I think video games COULD be the future of education... i mean lets face it, many of us were (are) incredibly obsessed with video games. We already have games that teach the principles of things like flying an airplane or commanding teams of people. Imagine if you had a strategic game that inadvertently taught you petroleum engineering or surgery? While there is still the practical application, the principles will have been nailed down since childhood. Downright instinctual.
Yes, video games in general that are multiplayer online make you type fast. Even if you make mistakes.
On the subject of "gamification" e book Ready Player One is a fun example of the concept, also great if you're a child of the 80's
Games only offer tangential learning benefits and provide a place to practice soft skills like spatial reasoning and sometimes logical planning. As far as being a source of knowledge, Minecraft has to be set up or modded to provide that. All it will do is add another layer to the classroom and possibly kill the reason why Minecraft is engaging.
I play Minecraft a bit too much for what's deemed healthy, but I'd find the idea of playing Minecraft in a class setting to be a horrible boring idea (unless it was me goofing off doing my own thing, like... not learning). Minecraft's fun because you have freedom to do what you please, in a education setting the teacher needs to be able to control your attention (if you think about it we kinda teach kids against their will don't we, for their own good of course).
Meaning for Minecraft to be an effective tool you need to remove that engaging element. You'd turn Minecraft in to a chore. You'd need things like: A method to restrict camera control and movement, control over mob spawning, player interaction to stop students punching eachother, the teacher needs a built in fun killing switch to turn Minecraft in to School.
That's not to say the very boiled down idea of minecraft as a simulated space has no merit, but MINECRAFT as it is has very minimal value. TBH something like Garry's mod would be a better learning tool, has programming, better physics than MC, and better means for creating props. Problem with Garry's mod is that it takes a good long time to get proficient with to make effective things. But if you acquired that talent it would be way better and potent then Minecraft as an educational tool, however it still suffers the same problems I mentioned Minecraft having, which was for it to be a good teaching tool you need a "Fun kill" button.
Playing minecraft with mods like redpower or computercraft requiers a lots of logic and thinking.
Creating of redstone schemes too.
So if you dont play minecraft casually and creating somethink inside its pretty good! :D
Even as an adult, Minecraft has helped me get a better grasp on spatial thinking, something years of schooling never did.
Games would be a fun addition to the class. Although I would suspect that people wont play games as much in their spare time if they've been playing games all day at school. A mix of traditional teaching and games would probably be best.
in my research into redstone in minecraft i was able to understand computers whereas when directly researching computers which i had done before i ever played minecraft i was confused and it made no sense, so in that respect it was an amazing educational tool to me for computers