Teaching with Games: GLPC Case Study: Joel

Joel Levin, a school technology integrator, works with second graders at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City. Through his use of MinecraftEDU, a version of the popular commercial game Minecraft modified for educational purposes, Joel leads his 2nd grade class through structured game-based scenarios that emphasis self-directed learning, collaboration between students, and positive social interactions.

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[Bunny The Human]

i wish whe i was in 2 grade i should be going their not to the crapy learning crapy junk

[gogiants123]

i go to this school. having macs is great, but the ones in the music room were pretty old and worthless until they upgraded them this summer.

[bladeb0y85]

I love your icon.

[willisverynice]

what a noob

[barnardcarter1504]

Was the guy playing minecraft on 1.5

[joe a]

in the classroom or not, minecraft is an amazing game with an infinite possibility. People have made fully functional calculators in game, just look it up on youtube!

[Justin Martinez]

Say what you want but I love Macs and I like PCs too, but I think Macs are better. That's my opinion and not any of your concern.

[MrD3STR03R]

Mac is shit.

[Justin Martinez]

They have freaking iMacs, my school has windows xp dell computers...

[MIsterremix99]

Too bad my school district (as a whole) sucks, I wud have liked that a few years ago instead of 3/4's of a year ago