Notes
Notes - notes.io |
Dundee pupils redesign city waterfront with Minecraft
5 June 2015
Students from Dundee have created their plans for the future waterfront of the city using Minecraft.
Primary students have spent months using the popular game to make plans for the area, which is currently under a PS1bn regeneration.
Dundee City Council and University of Dundee led the project.
The appearance of the plans was taken into consideration, as well as the support for tourism education and job creation.
As well as the project involving primary 6 and 7 pupils from across the city, students from nine secondary schools have been taking place in a similar Minecraft Youth Camp, funded by the university and TAYplan.
Pupils worked in groups using XBox and Playstation consoles equipped with the game, connected to whiteboards in classrooms, reimagining and building their visions of the city's waterfront.
'Hugely enthusiastic'
Derek Robertson from Dundee University's School of Education said that the game was "huge phenomenon" that engaged children.
He stated that "We must understand the digital spaces children use and how they can influence their learning."
"Games and applications like these are a great way for children to learn about design and the environment.
"The children that we have been working with in the past few months are extremely enthusiastic and have produced some great work." While some of it may be a challenge to city planners, that is part of the beauty of Minecraft: they can build anything.
Robertson was invited, along with 49 other teachers, to a Minecraft Educators Summit. This summit took place in Los Angeles and discussed how the game can be used in formal as well as informal learning.
minecraft wiki
City firm wins top video games award
7 November 2014
Seven amazing Minecraft creations
15 September 2014
How Dundee became an international games centre
10 September 2014
University of Dundee
Dundee City Council
My Website: https://minecraft-wiki.net/
|
|
Notes.io is a web-based application for taking notes. You can take your notes and share with others people. If you like taking long notes, notes.io is designed for you. To date, over 8,000,000,000 notes created and continuing...
With notes.io;
- * You can take a note from anywhere and any device with internet connection.
- * You can share the notes in social platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, instagram etc.).
- * You can quickly share your contents without website, blog and e-mail.
- * You don't need to create any Account to share a note. As you wish you can use quick, easy and best shortened notes with sms, websites, e-mail, or messaging services (WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Signal).
- * Notes.io has fabulous infrastructure design for a short link and allows you to share the note as an easy and understandable link.
Fast: Notes.io is built for speed and performance. You can take a notes quickly and browse your archive.
Easy: Notes.io doesn’t require installation. Just write and share note!
Short: Notes.io’s url just 8 character. You’ll get shorten link of your note when you want to share. (Ex: notes.io/q )
Free: Notes.io works for 12 years and has been free since the day it was started.
You immediately create your first note and start sharing with the ones you wish. If you want to contact us, you can use the following communication channels;
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: http://twitter.com/notesio
Instagram: http://instagram.com/notes.io
Facebook: http://facebook.com/notesio
Regards;
Notes.io Team
