In the past, much of the integration of that material happened in familiar, material world ways. They need to let them sink in, to become part of their being, to empower them as autonomous individuals. This is one reason why recess is such an important part of the school day it is not because kids need a break, but rather because they need the space to experiment, in unstructured ways, with the things that they’re learning. They see how the learning they do in school can be applied in playful spaces. When kids play, they take these conceptual structures into social settings and try them on. That’s all academic subject really are-ways of thinking, interacting, and articulating experience. Especially if you consider that what children learn in school are the languages and frameworks with which to make meaning out of the world. Of course, being the location of such important formative experiences is no small matter. Today, however, without a place to act out imaginative narratives, to make meaning out of emplaced experience, kids find their best opportunities in the virtual reality of the block-universe. Consider the fact that the term “free-range parenting” would have been unthinkable just two generations ago. It is so uncommon, in fact, that we debate it as if it were an alternative parenting strategy. We’re living at a time in human history during which kids have very little unsupervised playtime in the material world. And even kids whose parents put strict limits on screen time discover their freest and most creative experiences in the block-universe.
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Kids with permissive parents spend most, if not all, of their free time in the virtual Minecraft landscape. Minecraft forms the playground for this generation. The game is so popular and is such a prominent part of kids’ everyday experience that I’ve advocated naming the current generation of tweens and pre-teens: “Generation Blockhead.” And I don’t mean that in a negative or insulting way. There will also be a new “Minecraft Mentors” page where newbies can seek guidance from more experienced teacher/players.Īt the time of this writing over 22.2 Million people have purchased the PC/Mac version of Minecraft. Community pages at will host crowd-sourced lesson plans and curriculum ideas. The folks at Mojang and Microsoft are always protective of the grassroots community that helped make Minecraft the most popular game in the world so they want educators to be involved in shaping the product themselves.
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