This is the story of how we ended up playing Minecraft in my classroom to learn about social studies.
My students were shocked when I said yes to letting them play video games in class, and because I listened to them and let them lead, they were engaged in the project right from the start.
Now, I didn’t just set my students loose on the computers and let them do whatever they wanted. We talked as a class about the curriculum expectations for their project on the global community, they created a plan for how to demonstrate the curriculum expectations in Minecraft, and then they did it!
I even learned a thing or two about Minecraft along the way.
If this sounds like something your students would love, tune in to find out how we made it work!
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