Blog post #20: Minecraft Club - Success!!

 One of the main targets for my inquiry this year, was to engage boys in writing! This has been something I have found difficult throughout my whole teaching career. For some reason, boys just don't enjoy writing. Until it's about Minecraft that is... 

My recommendation to every teacher is to look at Minecraft Education! It is amazing! There are lesson plans and ideas for everything you could imagine; maths, literacy, social sciences and even te reo Māori! 

We started with this - we used lessons from Minecraft Education and adapted them to suit our learners. We found a 'First, Next and Then' structure to be useful so they had a very clear view of what was expected of them every lesson. We also did not have the luxury of having someone supervise the learning full time (we we still teaching other workshops in the hub). 


Success!!

This targeted the interests and passions of all our target writers and they were engaged! We were also surprised to see that the learners very rarely went off task (and roamed Minecraft) because they were so engaged in the task that had been given. Even the writing part! 

Things to note:: 

Minecraft is actually quite complicated - I recommend playing it yourself before you get the learners onto it. There will be some kids who are very much beginners. 

Tasks on Minecraft take a long time - we allowed a week for each task! 









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