Minecraft for the Classroom

Laromuss

http://www.gamespot.com/minecraft/videos/minecraftedu-is-coming-to-schools-near-you-6390338/

 

This would be a great tool for teaching Level design at my school and I am definitely going to incorporate it into my classes.  I can see using it to teach spatial reasoning, game metrics, landmarks, level flow and many other topics.  Currrently I'm using UDK to teach level design but it is limited in some aspects which is opened with minecraft.   

These videos are great too, you get to watch teachers use them in class and see how much fun the students and instructor have using it.

http://minecraftedu.com/wiki/index.php?title=Teaching_with_MinecraftEdu

BeansnBread

You just reminded me of playing Oregon Trail on Apple IIe in gradeschool. I learned two things from that game. The definition of dysentery and how prevalent dysentery was in the mid 1800s.