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Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers
Mickeycaskill writes: Microsoft wants to help educators use Minecraft to teach pupils about maths, history, creative design and other subjects and skills, claiming the game is already being used in classrooms in the US and UK. Minecraft developer Mojang was bought by Microsoft last year for $2.5 billion and the game has been featured in a number of HoloLens demos, an indication of how it sees the former indie phenomenon as more than just a game. "Very soon after Minecraft launched, we noticed teachers bringing the game into their classrooms," said a blog post. "Often inspired by the passion of their students, they started using Minecraft to design history lessons, teach language classes, explore mathematics, physics, computer science, writing, and more."
MOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOO!
So let's teach WWII by playing Wolfenstein.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
I don't care if it becomes Windows/XBOX only game. Just move it out of that POS java...
You mean Hitler didn't waste time and energy on quack science and other assorted occult crap?
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Very soon after Minecraft launched, we noticed teachers bringing the game into their classrooms
Often inspired by the passion of their students, they started using Minecraft to design history lessons, teach language classes, explore mathematics, physics, computer science, writing, and more.
Bullshit, bullshit, and more bullshit. I don't doubt that teachers have in fact used Minecraft for these things, but they're certainly not designing lessons, teaching classes, or exploring subjects. They're faffing about with Minecraft and the students don't benefit from it.
Go home RMS, you're drunk!
Teaching complex redstone techniques could pupils could actually develop reasoning skills.
I see very valuable real-life lessons to be learned from minecraft.
Yes, but what does the fox say?
"No, I won't go out with you."
He totally did, although Himmler was by far more into the occult stuff.
On the other hand, there really wasn't a cyborg Hitler. Well, not until he relocated to his moonbase after his stays in the U.S. and Argentina.
Iron Sky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt10...
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Go home RMS, you're drunk!
Risk Management Solutions???
I probably need a neck beard to understand wtf you are blabbering about.
That's my favorite non-fiction history movie.
I've wanted to use minecraft in classrooms before, but have yet to find a reasonable method of preventing connections to multi-player servers. Granted I haven't looked in a year or so, but until there is a way to do easily accomplish that I'll take a pass. There is no way I'm opening myself up to that level of liability.
This is the true reason why media outlets were saying "Gamers are Dead". The gamer "identity" of fun loving visceral experience seeking had to be replaced by the mundane passive "player" (as the SJW journalists said). That's why, "Games don't have to be fun". Look up the "serious games" initiative. In addition to the current opinion attitude and conformism factors that schools are recording in federal database about your children, gates wants to make it so that students can't like about their opinions on standardized tests by strapping kids into lie detectors in the name of collecting stats on teacher engagement with students.
So, media outlets were paid to create a crisis, just like Gates Thinktanks created a crisis in STEM. The same modus operandi was used: "Misogyny in STEM" vs "Misogyny in Games!", "Not enough Women in STEM" vs "Not enough Women in Games", "Harassment in STEM" vs "Harassment in Games Industry", etc.
Educational games had failed already in the 90's, so the stigma of games as a purely entertainment medium had to be dispelled. MS purchasing Minecraft for educational games was yet another example of the push for "serious games". It sounds outlandish, but this really is the truth behind the #Gamergate PSYOP.
Beware parents. Games are far more involving than TV, film or music which have all been co-opted by propagandists. Now they seek to implant propaganda in education and educational games (which record far more fine grained data than any test could) and your children won't even be able to lie about believing in the BS in order to graduate. If you truly care about education see the links I posted then do some more research on #Gamergate, the rabbit hole is very deep and has connections to the common core cluster fsck.
Hahahahaha heheheh lol hahahahahahaha lolololololol hahahahahah. I'm sure the kids will learn tons from this.
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