About this item
Learn how educators are using Minecraft® as a powerful instructional tool to engage students and teach subjects as varied as math and humanities. This book offers ten classroom projects from teachers using Minecraft® to teach math, science, languages, and more. Each project includes learning objectives, project organization and tasks, and ideas for reflection and assessments. You’ll also find detailed instructions for setting up and running a Minecraft® server in the classroom, both the regular and the popular MinecraftEdu versions. In this book, you’ll discover What Minecraft® is and why it’s such an engaging tool for the classroom. How to set up and administer servers that students use for their projects. What MinecraftEdu is, how to set up and manage it, and how to use its teacher controls.
About the Author
Colin Gallagher is an educator based in Singapore who loves computer games and using computer games in education. Colin is the host of Minechat YouTube channel, owner of the Google Minecraft in Education Community and owner of edutechniques.com, an educational technology website. Colin has been named an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Google Certified Teacher and has presented around the world on education technology most notably TEDxBKK. In October 2014 he was presented with the "Outstanding Contribution to Education" award at the Global LearnTech Congress in Mumbai.
In his spare time, Colin plays a lot of computer games (some not so educational) , watches a lot of bad reality TV shows, and listens to a wide range of musical acts from Faith No More to Frank Sinatra. He also loves to travel and experience new ways of getting lost.
