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Legos on Steroids Maria Cipollone Catherine Schifter, Ph.D. Rick Moffat An Exploratory analysis of the constructivist learning in Minecraft
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Minecraft is a video game world that is being vastly embraced by the educational community. We took some data from game play with high school students and assessed the learning outcomes, in order to show the value of these types of educational tools.
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Legos on Steroids
Maria Cipollone Catherine Schifter, Ph.D. Rick Moffat
An Exploratory analysis of the constructivist learning in Minecraft
Not news
Ito (2008)
Skill and drill games
Construction games
Enter Minecraft
Millions in revenue
Creativity driven construction
Gamers go edu
Methods
Participants (n=20)ages 14-16
Parents are out of town and kid is being pressured to host a party. He/she agrees and the party quickly gets out of hand.
“A Burning Passion”
“The Hole” and “Flesh-Eating Predator”
Piagetian Lens
Piaget and Inhelder (1969)
This ain’t your object permnance
Emancipation from content
