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What better way is there for students to learn Computer Science than in the context of their favorite video game? Minecraft is a huge sandbox and game-playing platform. The landscape stretches infinitely in all directions. It extends up into the hills and mountains, and down into dark caverns filled with lava and treasure. Minecraft allows us to teach both designing and coding skills to learners. Students get to go beyond just playing Minecraft, they get to program it! They create mods in Minecraft by learning programming concepts and applying them to realize their ideas. We use Minecraft for Education Edition for this course. Please watch this video to familiarize yourself with the platform. Minecraft: Education Edition is a game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration and problem-solving in an immersive digital environment. We use Minecraft: Education Edition to engage students across subjects and bring abstract concepts to life in remote, hybrid and in-person learning environments. In this session, subject to availability of time, our goal is to use project-based learning to cover important computer science & art/design concepts like: Events & Event Handling Coordinates Variables Iteration Conditionals Functions and Parameters Arrays Artificial Intelligence Patterns and Motifs Building Architecture Comics & Stories
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