“Minecraft is a block-building sandbox game with no set rules, where you can build anything you can possible imagine.” (MInecraft Beginner’s Handbook)
Minecraft Basics:
- Many people describe Minecraft as a game for building with digital lego.
- Minecraft is available on a number of platforms and has multiple versions. This blog will focus on how we can use MinecraftEdu (the computer based educational version) and MinecraftPE (the iPad version) in SCDSB.
- You can play alone in single player or with others in multiplayer.
- Different modes of play:
- Creative Mode - you have a full inventory to build, no monsters will attack you.
- Survival Mode - you have health and hunger. You can die in this mode. You need to craft and mine to survive. This is the mode that most kids play at home because it is challenging and adventurous.
- Hardcore Mode - like survival mode but when you die you lose everything in your inventory and the game is over.
- The Overworld is a dimension where you might explore different environments (or biomes) like swamps, extreme hills, desert forest, plains, jungle, ice plains, or even the ocean biome. This opens up a lot of possibility for inquiry in the classroom.
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