Learning through Minecraft, Developing Social and Emotional Literacy

• Collaboration
• Team Building
• Social Development
• Literacy
• Strategies
• Exploration
• Idea creation

The Minecraft Tasks

The Plot – Students land on an island and have to start over.

Task 1 – Build a shelter using resources found on the Island

Task 2 – Build a farm both crop & animal

Task 3 – You can see another island across the water. Build a port and boat to explore.

Task 4 – Assess the other students islands using Explain Everything App on iPad. ( See youtube for evidence )

Task 5 – Trade Students have 3 items they need to make. Use ingredients made on farm or purchase the ingredients from Trade Island.

Task 6 – Sell your items most profit made WINS!

To create sound tracks to represent their island

To create minecraft remixes using sounds associated with the game.

To create podcasts as an on going record of their island's progress

To develop social and emotional literacy through the collaborative creation of music and audio.

Where now?

Theme Park

This term Year 9 have been designers for a Theme park company.

Functional skills with email and CV writing as the students needed to get the job first.

Once they got the job it was on to the task of designing a new theme park.

Students were asked to use a Country of their choice and create a themed restaurant, gift shop and the ultimate rollercoaster.

DAT was used to explore and create music for different areas of the theme park, based upon their county of choice.

Year 9 will be starting Creative I-media next year so I introduced some pre-production techniques and we created a moodboard for the ideas and concept

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Once created it was time for the gaming programming Rollercoaster Tycoon.

We used this as our platform to expland on ideas and to make the theme park concept come to life.

Area 51! - Ride if you dare

Rollercoaster Junkie!

Using 'the World' as their topic students used cars, social media, sports players and company’s from around the world as their focus.

Students were asked to research and use Excel to create a spreadsheet of statistics.

Have we got time to talk about

Fighting Fantasy and adveture story creation via wikis?

ICT and DAT

working together.

What's DAT?

Top Trumps

What is ICT?

Students were then requested to produce a presentation to either sell their cards to the trade or to show how they came across their choice.

http://prezi.com/_jaqu-hm8amg/untitled-prezi/?kw=view-_jaqu-hm8amg&rc=ref-3981406

The most creative tool you will ever have!

Theme Parks!

Peer/peer

assessment

Team Work

What were our whole school objectives?

Scene setting

Whole School Project

Term Goal was Survival

Learning Through Minecraft:

Developing Social & Emotional Literacy

So what did we actually do?

(To deserve cake!)

The 'Whole School' Team

Ian Portlock

Louiza Bruce

Hannah Dibb

Minecraft

Techie Setup

The Students!

http://minecraftedu.com

Build it,

they will come

VLE

Audacity

Garageband

iPads/iPods

Apps

Server

Fraps

Blogs

Spreadsheets

Twitter

Green Screen

Mindmaps

YouTube

ICT Resources

• Simple Minds - Mind map
• Explain Everything- peer assessment
• Excel Spreedsheet- Trade

DAT

Digital Audio Technology

A music curriculum

for the digital generation

Aims of the Minecraft project in DAT

Audacity

FREE!

DAT

Software

Acid xpress

Garageband

I-pad and Mac

Celebrating pupils work on the

School radio!

The 24 hour curriculum

Inspiring Learning beyond the school gates

Free software available at home

– links to websites from school web site

Sound cloud/social media/youtube

to the world!