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@ncallaghan1
noelene.callaghan1
@det.nsw.edu.au
Noelene CallaghanRooty Hill High School
Sydney, Australia
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• 5 MIE (STEM) Educators met in Microsoft Sydney
– Teachers are from New South Wales, South Australia, New Zealand
• Aim:
– To create a Transformation Project
• Transformation Project Objective:
– To create a learning environment where students from Australia and New Zealand could collaborate and learn 21st Century learning skills
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Resources
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Students from geographically remote schools collaborate and construct technical creations in
Minecraft as a learning platform
www.mineclass.org
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• How to collaborate and communicate on web based projects with global colleagues
• How to self-direct their learning in a games-based environment
• How to employ computational thinking to build functioning machines in Minecraft
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• Students plan, design and collaboratively create structures and functioning machines in Minecraft.
• Students learn how to communicate and collaborate effectively in web based projects.
• Students have real global audiences for their creations.
• Students run virtual excursions for other schools in their Minecraft worldcreations.
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Objectives achieved by setting challenges based on ability levels
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• Identified students have control over the levels of other players
• Ability to upload and install mods
• Code using Python, Scratch & more
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Australia
• Rooty Hill High School, NSW
• St Columba Anglican School, NSW
• Seymour College, South Australia
New Zealand
• Hale School
• Te Arora College
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The Team
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• https://sites.google.com/site/minecraftrhhs/
• Minecraft 4 Me is an initiative by Rooty Hill High School as part of our ICT4Me BYOD program.
• Introducing gaming has enabled us to provide more opportunities for students in attempting and developing specialised ICT skills.
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• Minecraft 4 Me is targeted at students of diverse backgrounds, academic and technical ability levels.
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• Each member bring unique experiences and lessons to the team enabling in the team to be able to continuously collaborate to enhance the benefits of the game.
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• All members of Minecraft 4 Me are currently accessing Minecraft daily and Skype at least 2 nights a week.
• This is a student led program and the role of the educator in Minecraft 4 Me is to facilitate and assist students (and teachers) as needed
• Minecraft is PART of the experience. Students must use other tools to support their learning
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Whole
school
initiative
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• Transition into curriculum
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• Supports Cross KLA programs
• Used in
– Technology,
– TAS (Technical and Applied Sciences),
– Science,
– HSIE (Human Society and Its Environment)
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• To expand digital curriculum to include gaming
• To include Minecraft in all KLA’s
• To expose students in our local area to use gaming as an extra curricular activity
• To keep having fun!
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@ncallaghan1
noelene.callaghan1
@det.nsw.edu.au
Noelene CallaghanRooty Hill High School
Sydney, Australia