Minecraft now used to teach kids in school? Yep.

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When I was a boy they used canes and slide rules

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Smokeybacon wrote:When I was a boy they used canes and slide rules
Wish our punishments were that easy...we got tarred and feathered
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Dumbest thing i've ever seen. It pretty much says nothing about why MC is useful for teaching.
I've not seen that, but it makes me feel right at home for some reason. Perhaps it is the argueing about who's stayed in the worst place in England, hehe.

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Maybe for art class... but beyond that, it sounds like a bad(good?) excuse to play minecraft.

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Fehzor wrote:Maybe for art class... but beyond that, it sounds like a bad(good?) excuse to play minecraft.
Bad, for sure. I can't find any solid reason as to why they're trying to use Minecraft as an educational tool anywhere.

Also, just look at those included skins. They're atrocious!
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I've just gotten dumber since Minecraft entered my life. The only SLIGHTLY relevant thing is probably redstone which caused me to do some small and easy research on boolean logic, but apart from that it's just blocks. Blocks with no educational value.
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young civil or architectural engineers maybe?
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Ollieboy wrote:boolean logic
This. However, I'm sure anyone who is teaching boolean logic in school would prefer to use a more sophisticated method.

Also, with the right setup, I could maybe see Minecraft being used to teach some introductory economics for younger students.
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KingCrab wrote:young civil or architectural engineers maybe?
Would need physics for this to demonstrate proper construction. There is no way this would provide any benefit because it isn't a construction sim, it's just a game.
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But Ollie, sand falls when it has nothing under it! Thats totally physics based! :chicken:
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KingCrab wrote:But Ollie, sand falls when it has nothing under it! Thats totally physics based!
yeah but you can place sand on top of a torch so that's totally NOT physics based
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