Minecraft is super popular amongst kids; give this blog a few moments, and you’ll see why. Excellent idea!
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Wow. So I never would have guessed I would be writing about this topic since I initially hated Minecraft and had never understood why my brother enjoyed playing such a pixelated game; however, my thoughts are changing. I had initially googled Youtube as a great teaching resource but was surprised when an article about “Minecraft being the ultimate teaching tool” came up. After reading the article and watching the video I got to thinking that maybe my opinion about the game had been wrong this whole time.
To explain, Minecraft is like a huge online lego game. You have your character who can build, harvest, dig, swim, and many other things. There isn’t a particular object to the game besides stay alive and have fun. There are certain challenges you can take on (like defeating a dragon), but really the game centralizes around…
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Shelby Schulze 