Community reviews for Minecraft

Easily engaging for all students. This has an endless appeal for students and a huge potential as a digital interactive learning environment.

I have been using Minecraft Edu for many years in the classroom, and I have to say the new version is excellent and is getting better all the time as the people at Microsoft and Minecraft work to make elements of the Education Edition more vibrant and more pertinent to what students are learning in school today. For example, now there is Code Connection where you can code in the game, and the Chemistry update has just taken learning Chemistry to a whole new place. We are teaching a generation of connected students, and they often will learn better and be more engaged in an immersive environment. Is it necessary for all subjects? No. But having it as a tool to enhance learning is something valuable and should be used making education as fun and engaging as possible.

Overall, I think its a fun game. Kids of all ages love it. Can be hard to find a good way to use it in the classroom.

Tfu

I started using it recently in my computer lab and had students try and build a haunted house for Halloween. Advanced users breezed through it and were extremely creative. First time users were hesitant at first but then began to get extremely creative and extremely excited to learn something new through a game.

Overall. Minecraft is a HIGHLY engaging site and app. that attracts more boys as opposed to girls who want to play. Minecraft is a wide open sandbox game and teachers who are just starting to adopt need to be wary of management issues. In other words, structure what you want to have students accomplish and have clear norms on how to play to prevent chaos.

It is more towards engagement and cooperative skills that this tool is useful for.

The only struggle we had with Minecraft was getting kids to stop when the time was up. They really had a ton of fun with this activity. I did walk the room and check to see what was happening on each screen, but the kids were always on task because they enjoyed it so much.

I like this activity because my classes are made up of students from different teams in my building. When they are participating in this activity there are no teams. They all help and support each other. There is a real sense of creating a community and encouraging teamwork. They work together to create a shelter. they share milk to counter act poison. Since I still have some colleagues not in favor of computer "games" my only rule is that they may not "kill" each other off.

Minecraft is highly engaging. The kids love the functionality and interactivity. I like the fact that the kids are creating and collaborating in meaningful ways. A limitation is the account, which costs 27.00 per student. Also, students need to discuss away from the game if they are going to effectively plan and collaborate to create something that is directed with purpose.