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(DIR) Post #AvDjy1qdX7DZypFwNE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-17T11:58:46Z
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Have any math teachers on here used minecraft (eg arrows to teach about parabolas. You can use command blocks to make the parabolas physical arcs when you fire. Or redstone for logic?)There is also something called "educational minecraft" apparently.Thought I might mess around with it this summer, but don't know if it's worth the time or if I'm just making up an excuse for me to play video games. (very possible)Curious what it was like *in a class*#education #MathTeacher #matheducation
(DIR) Post #AvDkKM0PGhNiruTHkW by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-06-17T12:02:47Z
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@futurebird but if students learn redstone and mercury, they'll start launching astronauts, and you know where that leads.
(DIR) Post #AvDkbITndAmir8IaLA by FeloniousPunk@beige.party
2025-06-17T12:05:49Z
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@futurebird I had some minor glancing involvement with educational Minecraft development. It was being used to teach chemistry and such. BUT that data was being used to train machine learning to process sales of materials around the country, looking for people amassing materials to build a bomb. So…. yeah.
(DIR) Post #AvDlW3PCLh24buD6EC by mstheasaurus@bne.social
2025-06-17T12:16:02Z
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@futurebird I've used it - Minecraft Education has a bunch of tools that make controlling a class a bit easier, like being able to restrict players, teleport them, have all the students in the same world or in groups. There are pre-made lessons as well, worlds with things setup for students to do. Since we're a Microsoft school, students already had logins. One issue is that once students have it, they can create their own worlds and invite all of their friends - ones where you aren't the admin and they can just play the game freely. Can require quite a bit of behaviour management if you've got cheeky students. Mine have generally been pretty excited to get to learn inside the game and happy to work on activities provided.
(DIR) Post #AvDmX469MIGb0ELYSu by stephan324ppm@mastodon.no2nd.earth
2025-06-17T12:27:27Z
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@futurebird I've got a thirteen year old expert on hand. Going to ask him! 😉
(DIR) Post #AvDuTFfhBdB9N6fJui by sciandculture@ecoevo.social
2025-06-17T13:56:25Z
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@futurebird There is actually a Minecraft Lab in Duval Schools https://www.okiolabs.com/nadine-ebri-reimagining-education-through-game-based-learning/
(DIR) Post #AvDwlaN3AKvOgqoXZI by DesertTrail@mastodon.social
2025-06-17T14:22:07Z
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@futurebird We’ve used Minecraft for Education to model circuits. It was more of a “just for fun” activity because we also built different physical circuits. For my upper elementary-age students it was a bit too temptingly distracting a setting, but the could see using it with older students. Placing dispensers at different heights and calculating trajectory?
(DIR) Post #AvE8QO4mse0jvavjqS by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-06-17T16:32:45Z
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@futurebird Seeing all this talk about Minecraft does make me think of a point that might be worth considering.Besides the fact Minecraft is a commercial product, it's also owned by a very restrictive company. As of some years ago it became impossible even to use your original Mojang account to play the game and you have to have a Microsoft account, which comes with plenty of caveats and lots of privacy issues.Minecraft is fun and it has educational potential, but I really think that it isn't right to expect anyone to use it. Surely there are other games with similar potentials? (I think of Space Engineers, but it does require a Steam account darn it. Valve is presumably less evil than MS -- at least not doing the same stuff yet anyway -- but still, not DRM-free.)
(DIR) Post #AvHWuGlxa2qwKzmlGK by suzannesscala@sfba.social
2025-06-19T07:51:13Z
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@futurebird another responder posted a video about building a Minecraft computer — my kid introduced me to a whole subculture of people who record videos of themselves making simple computers in Minecraft. The logic gate one was really good - clear explanation of concepts, clear visual depiction of what’s happening. It’s not parabolas, though. Apologies that I am not a math teacher and don’t know how this would go in a classroom
(DIR) Post #B2Q8WEGLanFnrBfieO by LibreFaso@hostux.social
2026-01-18T20:35:02Z
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@futurebird Absolutely not math, but Olivier Véron made a full lesson plan with Minetest (year-long for his 1st year of high school students, IIRC).And one good enough that after a few years of unrecognized labor, he was promoted to an inspector role (I haven't followed his achievements since that, though, and he's now too busy to post a lot).