All aboard the Minecraft “train”!
Starting to hear about Minecraft coming down the track? Yes, you heard correctly: Minecraft: Education Edition allows educators to bring creativity, game-based learning, and coding into any classroom.
Engineering Minecraft training from scratch can be overwhelming, even for seasoned edtech specialists. The new Minecraft Education Edition Trainer Academy course in the Microsoft Educator Center is just the course you need to help trainers teach other educators how to use Minecraft: Education Edition in the classroom.
The new course on the Microsoft Educator Center helps kickstart a trainer’s first session. Supporting training with teachers by providing eight modules, including best practices, session breakdowns, and content examples. The course provides sample agendas, pre-surveys, lessons, and in-game tips and tricks. It also includes some invaluable technical tips and ideas to help trainers navigate the room. This supports teaching Minecraft: Education Edition, whether in-person or virtually.
“One thing I was reminded of while writing this course is how flexible Minecraft: Education Edition is as a learning tool. It allows any teacher to jump on the Minecraft train for any age, grade level, or subject matter. With this in mind, I learned those teaching trainers to teach others using an open-game platform like Minecraft can be overwhelming for many. Showing how Minecraft Education Edition Trainer Academy can be used in simple ways, really is the best way to start.” – Nic Finelli, course writer
Minecraft Education Edition Trainer Academy
The goal for anyone taking this course is to gain confidence. Trainers should become empowered to successfully facilitate a Minecraft Education Edition training. When taking the course the hope is they will embrace a design thinking framework; or a “Minecraft’-itude;” that fosters trainers to cycle through empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing when working with other teachers to learn with Minecraft.
Woot! Woot! Hop aboard and check out this new course on the Microsoft Educator Center for teachers who want to train other teachers on Minecraft: Education Edition.
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