Esports Spotlight: The Hidden Treasure in Pirate Cove
What are students learning when they play competitively in collaborative teams against the clock? These Minecraft Esports worlds were design
Immersive Problem Solving with Esports
What if you could create the perfect problem setting for your students - one that immerses them fully, develops high-level cognitive skills, and sharpens decision-making and reaction times? What if the problem environment you created was personalised to give your students just-in-time feedback, reward them for good performance and encourages their development by setting challenges just difficult enough to not be frustrating, but incrementally harder than their last successfu
The Transformative Power of Play
During this challenging time of social distancing, lockdown, and learning from home, many of us are learning what it means to adapt to change quickly, and finding that it takes time to adjust! There are good days, where we’re highly productive and in flow and there are days where we really find it hard to get going. According to Emotion Life Lab, this response is actually completely normal in adjusting to uncertainty, in what they refer to as The Corona Rollercoaster: If adul
Social & Emotional Learning and the Power of Perspective
When we explore Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), there are many tools and strategies that are available for us to use and promote within our classroom. However, perspective-taking (or the ability to view a situation from different perspectives, and therefore make sense of others’ thoughts and feelings) is a hugely important step in developing empathy - a cornerstone of social and emotional learning. In an article by educational psychologist, Hunter Gehlbach, social pers
Exploring the Potential for Powerful Real-World Learning with Minecraft
In this blog we explore the ways in which Minecraft can be used as a tool for exploration of complex real-world issues, by creating safe dig
