pedagogy and things with games in a classroom skövde

Santeri Koivisto - TeacherGaming LLC

Game plan

Brieflyme

TG historyMinecraftEdu history

Deep-ishtop down approach to teaching - pitch

pedagogical frameworktwo classrooms + additional fun

talk + doing

© Santeri Koivisto / TeacherGaming LLC

My IRL avatar- M.Ed. (2012) + Qualification to teach in the Finnish comprehensive school- Started TeacherGaming LLC in summer 2011- Avid gamer (Anno-, X3-, Total War- and Fallout-series... f.ex.)- TG is the second of three startups I have been involved (in chronological order)


SCGroup Oy 12.6.2010

Who needs oil? I ride a bus.

School project with Minecraft


Past

TeacherGaming LLC

First “school” features

Finland

SCGroup Oy 12.11.2011


Internationalization through community

TeacherGaming LLC- ceo + big picture, Santeri- PR + edu. director, Joel- Lead dev., Aleksi

+ 2developers, Toni & Daniel+ 1 part time web guy’+ Madrid team of two designers and one dev. hosted by Complutence Uni. + sales, our finance lady


Numbers - over 1,2k schools- around 700k users

‘A startup company that edufies entertainment games.’


Our first project is

It became

What can you teach with MinecraftEdu?


What can you teach with any sandbox game out there?

What can you teach with a classroom?


Classroom is the traditional teacher’s

sandbox.

Now there are many.


Before going into the pedagogy with these two classrooms / sandboxes:

Let me tell you how MinecraftEdu works technically today and what we

were doing first:

Teacher’s game server

Clients / players

Curriculum, add-ons, etc



Q?

From way abstract toabstract toconcrete.

Direction


“The background and educational use of Minecraft in a wide educational setting /context, possibly with new skills, environmental and societal entrepreneurial applications.”

©TeacherGaming LLC - Santeri Koivisto

Two learning processes that naturally occur in Minecraft(Edu)

1. Creating interest and meaningfulness

2. Digital Citizenship



informal

formal

In school- subject matter

At home & with friend- all the rest

1)Brief background

1) Step further


informal & 100% blended

In school

freetime

formal virtual formal physical


Problems?- subjects in solitude- learning context in solitude- knowledge in isolation

1)


Minecraft has a natural ability to connect to every

topic and context out there.

<15 years olds don’t make a difference between virtual

and physical environments.

1)


1)1)

Most students are also very excited about Minecraft

We tried to take everything out from Minecraft and it still seemed very engaging to students.

They are also eager to use and share the new knowledge they’ve obtained about Minecraft and what they learn at school, apply to that!!

1)


informal & 100% blended

freetime

formal virtual formal physical

And what excitement does with Minecraft*+school:

it makes the knowledge

travel

*This applies to other games too!

Perspective change?


2) The crafting of the digital citizen

“

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2)What means do we actually have to teach digital citizenship?

“Telling the students that copyrights are important and griefing is a bad

thing is a start, but how to really make it mean something?”


2)

Fun? Fun?

The answer is no.


2) Biggest mistake a teacher can make:

“But hey, it’s just a game!” ^_^



2)

Many games naturally bring up situations where conflicts happen. When these conflicts are handled as they should

be, a digital citizen learns the lessons he / she needs.

“What skills do “I” as a teacher need?”

“You are already an expert in handling conflicts between students!”


These two were the fundamental learning processes that I feel Minecraft can naturally

develop and which I think are the most important ones.

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The Lord of the Pedagogy - Two Classrooms

How I see it:

virtual classroom physical classroom

sandbox game room


How to start connecting / blending


Script / lesson plan


Example scripts - where to start:

‘Textbook ‘ stereotype (math - area):- teacher shows the examples on the blackboard +asks a few questions from the students- few example assignment (so everybody gets it)- students independent work quietly - inspection - homework

‘Textbook ‘ stereotype (math - area):- teacher shows the examples on the blackboard +asks a few questions from the students- few example assignment (so everybody gets it)- students independent work quietly - inspection - homework


Example scripts - where to start - where to put the sandbox? :

??

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introduction

examples

practice (in groups)

Challenges?? (in groups)

(Homework (in groups))


And when you level up :


Couple things to keep in

mind:- roles

- work routines

Magic! :D

(example)

Have you heard about the maker-movement or hacking that or this?


These naturally connects your two classrooms


How we are trying to help you with this

TO DO list- junior developer

* blend hacking in where kids already are- creating tools for the community to share their ideas- more games!

(+ what we mean by hacking)


In-service training methodology‘technology injections’

Two in progress ideas to make it more solid:


Qualitative evaluation for the classroomtimelapse


Q?


Thank you!

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blog: thoughtsaboutminecraftedu.tumblr.com

pedagogy and things with games in a classroom skövde

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