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A Teacher' s guide to the computers 4 kids minecraft education edition lessons

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Contents

What is Minecraft Education Edition? .............................. 3 How to install Minecraft Education Edition ........................ 3 How to log into Minecraft Education Edition ....................... 4 Setting up to start playing ....................................... 5 Create a New World................................................. 6 Joining a game..................................................... 7 Finding your game IP Address ...................................... 8 Profile Types in Minecraft Education Edition ...................... 9 Customising your world with commands. ............................ 10

Using /ability .................................................. 10 Using /gamerule ................................................. 10 Using /give ..................................................... 11 Using /time set ................................................. 12 Using /weather .................................................. 12 Using /say and /tell ............................................ 12 Using Fixed Inventory Slots ..................................... 12 Special Blocks.................................................... 12 Border Blocks ................................................... 12 Allow and Deny Blocks ........................................... 13 Slate, Poster and Board ......................................... 13 Camera and Portfolio ............................................ 13 Non-playable Characters (NPCs) ................................... 14 Making Learning Visible ? Ladder of Feedback ..................... 15 Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking ........................ 15 Computers 4 Kids Unit 8 Skills ................................... 16 Badges............................................................ 18 Resources......................................................... 18 Other Resources related to game based learning and constructivism ................................................................ 18 .................................................................. 19 .................................................................. 19 Computers 4 Kids ................................................... 19 PO Box 31143, Tokai, 7966 ............................................ 19 Cape Town, South Africa ............................................. 19 +27 21 7127800...................................................... 19 info@computers4kids.co.za ........................................... 19

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What is Minecraft Education Edition?

Minecraft Education Edition is the new version of Minecraft specifically for schools. The preview version became available in mid-June 2016 and the final version in November 2016, with updates regularly being made. Minecraft Education Edition is a version of Minecraft which has been specially adapted for use in the classroom and has some extra features which make it quite nifty. Don't worry if you are not a Minecraft `fundi', your students certainly will be, and that is fine! Your role here is to provide learning opportunities for your students and to guide their use of the virtual space. Let their imaginations run free to create constructions you probably wouldn't ever have thought of!

How to install Minecraft Education Edition

In order to install Minecraft Education Edition you will need: Computers running Windows 10 Microsoft Office 365 Education (this is free for schools so find out how to get it for your school if you don't have it) A network and internet access to authenticate. Minecraft Education Edition licences (you can contact us at puters4kids.co.za for information on how to purchase these).

Now go to the Minecraft Education Edition Website: and follow the prompts.

If your school has already purchased Minecraft then you should be able to claim a Minecraft licence. Otherwise you may pay for an individual licence. The installation file will now download and you can run this on your computer to install Minecraft. Note: Minecraft Education Edition is a Windows 10 app which has to be installed in your computer, it does not run online.

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How to log into Minecraft Education Edition

Select

the

Minecraft

Education Edition App from

the Windows 10 Start Screen.

You will be asked for your institution email address. Login with your Office 365 email address and password.

Note: this is where Minecraft will make use of your internet in order to authenticate your users but after this point the internet will not be used again. The local area network would be needed, however, for the players to play together.

You are now on the start screen. You can choose to Play straight away or tweek some of the options.

Skins will allow you to change the appearance of your character. Click on the hanger under the character to see the options.

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Setting up to start playing

Clicking on the

Settings

button

allows you to set up

Minecraft to your

liking.

The top left section

of the Settings window allows you to

make changes to the

Keyboard and Mouse Settings.

Note that you can use a Keyboard & Mouse (the mouse is really necessary, it is difficult to play with a touchpad), a Xbox controller or a touch screen.

The bottom left

section

of

the

Settings

window

allows you to make

changes to the General

settings. You can

change settings such

as the size of the

screen and the GUI

(that is the toolbar

at the bottom of the

Minecraft

screen).

You can hide it

altogether if you want

to.

Language if you want to.

You can turn sounds on and off with the Audio

button and also use

Minecraft in another

Click the cross at the top right-hand corner to close the window.

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