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A Pair of Minecraft Library Lessons

I love project-based learning, and Minecraft lends itself well to culminating tasks. In the past, I've incorporated Minecraft into media literacy, social studies, reading, writing, math (geometry, number sense and…
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Simcoe County TLs Inquire About Minecraft

On October 17, 2014 GamingEdu member Diana spoke at the Simcoe County District School Board on "Using Minecraft for Reading Engagement". The essential understanding explored by this teacher-librarian conference was:…
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Growing the group through teacher support

It's wonderful to see so many great articles online about the benefits of Games Based Learning - this week, it has been this article on Wired by Clive Thompson that…
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Friday Frequencies with Phisagrim – Third Post (October 3, 2014)

Your friendly slime is back! Yo guys, it's Friday Frequencies with Phisa Volume 3! Your slime friend hasn’t been typing recently - nothing interesting has been happening but now here’s…
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Age is just a number

During summer school (July 2014 to be exact), my Grade 3 students interacted with Denise Colby's Grade 6-7 students on the Ryerson University sponsored multi-school Minecraft server. Both classes were…
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Friday Frequencies with Phisagrim – Second Post (September 5, 2014)

I recently went to see ADVN’s maps. I went and played some of them; they were good - just might need polishing. Give a great round of applause for CosmicDragon135!…
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The Best Laid Plans (get trashed and get better)

A few weeks ago, Denise Colby wrote about her summer school experience with Minecraft. As she mentioned, I had the great opportunity to incorporate Minecraft much more thoroughly in my…
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Friday Frequencies with Phisagrim – First Post (August 29, 2014)

Logging in as ... Phisagrim. Hey guys, this is Phisagrim, owner of the Magma Café and one of the 3 main Grims (Liragrim and Terragrim being the others). Recently (Wednesday…
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Minecraft Negotiations

This post first appeared on Monday Molly Musings () on Monday, June 2, 2014 under the same title. Last Tuesday, May 27, I attended a Teacher Leader Network workshop to…
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