Minecraft Schooling: Digital Learning for Junior Years

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Author(s): Leonard Busuttil (University of Malta, Malta), Christina Gruppetta (University of Malta, Malta)and Vanessa Camilleri (University of Malta, Malta)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Gaming Trends in P-12 Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Donna Russell (Walden University, USA)and James M. Laffey (University of Missouri at Columbia, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9629-7.ch023

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Playing digital games is an important leisure activity for a large number of us. Research shows that a large number of children play digital games for leisure purposes. One of the games played is Minecraft. This chapter outlines how Minecraft is being used in junior year settings by referring to academic literature as well as communities of practice available on the internet. The authors outline a set of activities incorporating Minecraft aimed at seven year olds which were designed to introduce a series of curricular topics in a class in a Maltese school. Following qualitative data analysis the chapter outlines a series of outcomes that were extracted from this project

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