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Best EdTech Conference in the Pacific Northwest!

The Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) puts on the best EdTech conference in the Pacific Northwest! The amazing sessions, workshops, and speakers are as high quality as the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)! Educators from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and all over come to Washington state to attend NCCE’s annual conferences. I’ve been …

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Coding in Minecraft!

Student holding his water bottle with a Coding in Minecraft sticker.

Minecraft Education Edition has some amazing Hour of Code worlds that are fun to play to have students learn a little bit of coding. This year’s new addition to the collection is the Escape Estate and it looks great. But what if you want something more in-depth? If you are looking for more coding with …

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Building for Hours!

Photo of students using Minecraft for the 2021 Global Minecraft Challenge.

My 5th and 6th grade students are participating in this year’s Minecraft Education Edition and UNESCO Sustainability Development Global Build Challenge: Peace with Nature. When using Minecraft Education Edition, or Minecraft:EE or just M:EE, in the classroom teachers have access to ready-made worlds for all subjects and different grade levels. It’s amazing how much is …

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Minecraft Education Edition’s Building Competitions

Minecraft House Build

At the end of August, after attending an amazing Minecraft Education Edition Esports Camp, I shared their new esports worlds and how to access them. Yesterday I finally got the chance to try one of the Make and Model worlds to have my students practice building together in their teams! It was so much fun! …

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Sustainability Development in Minecraft

Pirate Ship with Yellow and Green Score image.

The Challenge! That is this year’s Minecraft Education Edition’s Global Challenge: Peace with Nature, a challenge partnering MinecraftEdu with UNESCO! Intro Deck In addition to the video, to get students excited and curious about this year’s challenge, here is a slide deck that comes with the challenge for teachers to introduce it to students: Perfect …

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Minecraft Education Edition Brings Esports to EVERYONE!

Minecraft Education Edition (@PlayCraftLearn) has just rocked my esports world. Two year ago, when I started a 6th grade esports club at my school I chose Minecraft as our game because it’s loved by a LOT of kids, is completely inclusive, is age appropriate for the youngest of middle school aged kids, and can be …

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WA State and Surrey, UK Minecraft Games

We had SO much FUN! Friday, Feb 21, at 7:30 am Chimacum, WA, time 10 Chimacum Elementary School students logged in to their school-issued Minecraft Java Edition eSports accounts. They then joined a Minecraft server hosted by the Club Minecraft UK (Club Minecraft Twitter) group located in Surrey, England! The US and UK kids played …

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Broadcasting Esports Games

I was able to start a Minecraft Esports Club for my 6th graders even though I know nothing about what I’m doing and I’m learning as I go along and I’m learning by trying and failing. Why would I also try live streaming when I don’t know anything about that, either? To offer students the …

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Esports with Minecraft, Getting Started

In my last post on Esports with Minecraft, I shared resources that helped me get a Minecraft Esports Club started for my 6th graders. I got as far as having everything I needed to get started in that post, and now I’m going to show what happened after that. In that post I shared a …

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Esports with Minecraft

Yesterday I wrote a post about a game that some of my 6th-grade students played with kids in Surrey, England, Friday, Feb 21, 2020. In this post, I’m going to share how I got this going for my school. I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this you know what esports are. If you …

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