July 19, 2018 | Mentor of the Week, MOTW, Piia Martikainen
By telling my story I want to encourage people to use or at least to try Minecraft in their lessons even they don’t know how it works. As long as we know our pedagogy, students are easy to lead to t...
July 13, 2018 | G4C, Games For Change, Minecraft Mentors
From June 28-30, a group of Global Minecraft Mentors and members of the Minecraft: Education Edition team took part in the annual Games for Change Festival in NYC. The Festival brings together game cr...
July 6, 2018 | Ben Spieldenner, Mentor of the Week, MOTW
Minecraft and Writing Transformation In the words of the Time Traveler from The Time Machine, “I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.” Writing is so oft...
June 24, 2018 | Activity of the Week, Collaboration, creativity, Problem Solving
This week, we are providing a sample desert island world for your students to build an object in Minecraft to represent the one thing they would want to have on a desert island. Download the world he...
June 21, 2018 | Global Mentor, Mentor of the Week, Monica Joshi, MOTW
You are the player, and I am the block. Together we make Minecraft. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into Minecraft building ...