Minecraft: A Learning Tool

In 2009, a Swedish video gamer, programmer and designer known as “Notch” demonstrated Minecraft – a 16-bit world where players build and craft structures. Minecraft looks crude and blocky, like giant, digital Lego pieces. Still, the simplistic visual overlay of blocks and cubes underwrites a rich, deep and complex system of resource management, construction and….

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Tablets in Grade 2

My colleagues and I are currently working on a project that is moving our students closer to 1-1 learning, with each pair of students sharing a tablet on a daily basis. The focus of our Technology Learning Community is to integrate digital literacy into all subject areas by teaching our students how to blog, as well….

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