Database #3 - Minecraft Education & Student Engagement
Introduction (07/22/2022): Halfway through the 2021-2022 school year, my school decided to invest in a Minecraft Education Server for our students. I had no idea what this meant, but I was interested to know how it may further engage my students. Before this, my students had been participating in Minecraft Education on their own devices and saving their work locally to their laptops. I learned that a Minecraft Education Server would allow them to save their work to essentially a cloud system, so that the whole school could see what they had completed. This seemed like a meaningful opportunity to collaborate with the whole school. So, now I am curious how other ELA teachers have meaningfully integrated Minecraft Education into their classrooms. The end goal of this research will be to create a database of resources for ELA teachers to consult before integrating Minecraft Education into their classrooms. Update (07/25/2022): After completing some researc...