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Minecraft

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Today I learned about minecraft. I always heard about it from my past students, but have never tried it before. If fact, I always told my students to leave minecraft at the door, and talk about it after class, but after trying it today, I realized that there are so many amazing applications for it in the classroom. Students can play together and collaborate. Teachers can run an instructors platform where they can limit certain functions and enable others. There are different worlds, and so many possibilities.

Edutopia has some fantastic uses for it in schools:

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/minecraft-in-classroom-andrew-miller

Here is a tutorial on minecraft to get you started!

 

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Minecraft photo from:https://www.deviantart.com/woopwoopwoop11/art/Minecraft-wallpaper-253892642

Virtual Reality

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Today, we experienced virtually reality. It was amazing!! We were able to visit an archeological dig site is Spain without having to leave the room. It would be a really cool thing to bring into classrooms. Students would be super engaged and could explore material that may otherwise be off limits. VR could also be used in art classes to do virtual painting, or even a math class to build models and measure angles.

 

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Augmented reality is used really commonly in social media such as snap chat and instagram. It is when you change a real image.

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I have never experienced mixed reality, but it is the idea that you can put images into real life situation using technology such as google classes. Cool!