Minecraft for grades 4 and 5 has begun. I'm just going to record what I hear.
How do I build?
Who's building? Go watch him.
Ready. I've got the TNT. Watch this. (and the pure pleasure of destroying and rebuilding)
Can you help me? I forget how to...
(and from everyone a running record describing their decision making as they play)
I just found lava.
What is that?
Hold down the mouse. Go to.... put the wood here ...
Several students suddenly get up and gather around one all chatting in excitement.
It's starting to get dark.
How do I switch between two?
You need to go to options.
You have to update the Java.
Dude you're in ... there's a brick that turns purple.
Maybe it's obsidian
No it goes purple up and down.
You're launching.
One boy gets up to help another make a portal. Everyone leaps up to observe and then try it themselves.
Constant questions, teaching, observing, learning and celebration when someone masters a new technique.
The ebb and flow of natural learning.
I've got a portal. I've got a portal! I'm going through.
I've found a duck taking a bath.
No, that's just a chicken clucking around.
(disgust) He can't even swim!
And one boy who tries computer after computer trying to get into the game. Finally a girl suggests that he's trying to load the wrong version. Success.
How do I build?
Who's building? Go watch him.
Ready. I've got the TNT. Watch this. (and the pure pleasure of destroying and rebuilding)
Can you help me? I forget how to...
(and from everyone a running record describing their decision making as they play)
I just found lava.
What is that?
Hold down the mouse. Go to.... put the wood here ...
Several students suddenly get up and gather around one all chatting in excitement.
It's starting to get dark.
How do I switch between two?
You need to go to options.
You have to update the Java.
Dude you're in ... there's a brick that turns purple.
Maybe it's obsidian
No it goes purple up and down.
You're launching.
One boy gets up to help another make a portal. Everyone leaps up to observe and then try it themselves.
Constant questions, teaching, observing, learning and celebration when someone masters a new technique.
The ebb and flow of natural learning.
I've got a portal. I've got a portal! I'm going through.
I've found a duck taking a bath.
No, that's just a chicken clucking around.
(disgust) He can't even swim!
And one boy who tries computer after computer trying to get into the game. Finally a girl suggests that he's trying to load the wrong version. Success.
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