Minecraft Coding and Esports

Today I took an online toolkit on how to use Minecraft in the classroom to extend my knowledge on this platform and make learning more engaging for students. 

Minecraft is collaboration, creative, communicative and allows for critical thinking.  There is a classroom mode app that allows for 40 students to work on  group tasks. There are pre-made lesson plans that you can take and modify for certain activities. 

Students can create complex structures to show learning through building i.e. Bees unit 

Unleash esports - There are STEM learning projects and coding units students can use. Each activity needs a learning outcome that they can share with teacher and peers. There is a camera inside the game. This allows students to take pictures on their work online and take selfies of characters in game to prove it is their work. Additionally, an inbuilt photo album. Students can create a portfolio for learning - book and Quill is more extensive (50 page) to write in. Export as a pdf 

Classroom Mode: move students and pause the game. link on final slide (classroom app download)

Border blocks restrict group movement 

Python101 - available in game - coding 

Addition of hardware digital technology that allows students to create games through coding and export them on to a device like a Nintendo. 

There is an Esport course that allows teachers to become educated in Minecraft esports. 

Thank you to Crispin Lockwood who delivered a great toolkit. 

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Educationgate: Minecraft in the Classroom - Put in presentation mode to open extra links inside. 

Coding link attached to slide 

Te Reo for Classrooms with Makaore Wilson

 

Today's Toolkit was presented by Makaore Wilson. Makaore delivered a clear presentation on basic instructional languages we can use in  the classroom and generate into our own everyday vocabulary. It was so good to have a clear list of vocabulary words and phrases with soundbites to repeat translations for my own practice and use and my students.  I find learning Te Reo quite complicated at times due to different dialects, speed of pronunciation. The soundbites were a great attachment as rewindable resources. 

Instruction language: 

Tone of delivery is important in using instructional language within the class. It was good to have a clear teaching of these basic instruction phrases as a teacher who attends PDs I hear these words all the time but I did not grow up in New Zealand so I've never been taught what these phrase mean. I feel a lot more confident in hearing these phrases and using them in class.  My goal this week and onwards to practice and use a new phrase a week; for example Haere mai ki te whariki noho ai. 

I am looking forward to using more kiwaha and in particular "kei kona au - I agree" in my Talkmoves with the students. 

Time Structures: 

ke tei - present tense sentences 

wåmua = past tense 

I - defines that it is a definte past tense 

Example: I te wera te kai - The food was hot 

I tera wiki = last week 

I tere mutunga wiki = last weekend 

I tera tau = last year 

Inatahira = day before yesterday 

verb = tumahi

Pronoun - tukapi 

noun = tuingoa 

Kiwaha = Slang/ colloquialisms 

Katahi ra! Amazing 

He tino toki koe You're a champion 

Tino kino te pai Wicked