Vance stevens on Minecraft at Techno CLIL 2017

Vance Stevens on Minecraft for language teaching and

CLILVance Stevens is founding co-moderator of

EVO Minecraft MOOCEVOMC15, EVOMC16, and EVOMC17

Vance Stevens EVOMC17 at Techno CLIL Jan 15 2017

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EVO Minecraft MOOC – #EVOMC17

https://youtu.be/GDHdEeILiQA

https://youtu.be/GDHdEeILiQA


Vance is invited to talk to EVO Techno_CLIL

https://moodle4teachers.org/enrol/index.php?id=90

https://moodle4teachers.org/enrol/index.php?id=90


Let’s parse this: EVO Techno CLILCLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning1. Dual focus - fostering development of language

competences and the delivery of subject content at the same time

2. Learning of a curricular subject in a foreign language1. Great advantages in terms of students' learning outcomes and cognitive

processes.

3. This EVO session is aimed at … combining teaching strategies and technical tools (e.g. Minecraft)


1. Minecraft and CLIL: Language competenceDual focus - fostering development of language competences and the delivery of subject content at the same time

http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej70/ej70int/

We’ll look at 3 stories from this article




Story 1: Marijana and Filip SmolčecEpisode 234: Sunday September 7, 2014Learning2gether in Hangout with Marijana Smolčec talking about the EU LLP Comenius Projecthttp://learning2gether.net/2014/09/07/learning2gether-in-hangout-with-marijana-smolcec-talking-about-the-eu-llp-comenius-project/ - http://sco.lt/9N7yBV

This slide from http://www.slideshare.net/vances/evo-minecraft-mooc-at-the-2015-slanguages-online-conference/9

http://learning2gether.net/2014/09/07/learning2gether-in-hangout-with-marijana-smolcec-talking-about-the-eu-llp-comenius-project/




http://sco.lt/9N7yBV

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/evo-minecraft-mooc-at-the-2015-slanguages-online-conference/9







Story 2: David DodgsonDodgson, D. (2014). Breaking the learning blocks – Minecraft and language learning. The Future of Education, Reform Symposium, RSCON 2014. Available: http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/breaking-the-learning-blocks-minecraft-and-language-learning.

http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/breaking-the-learning-blocks-minecraft-and-language-learning




Story 3: Jeff Kuhn, Zombies, and WritingLearning2gether Episode 222: Saturday, June 14, 2015 - CALL-IS and IATEFL LTSIG webinar on Gaming and Gamification: A Win-Win for Language Learninghttp://learning2gether.net/2014/06/14/learning2gether-about-gaming-and-gamification/

http://learning2gether.net/2014/06/14/learning2gether-about-gaming-and-gamification/




2. Learning curricular subjects in a foreign languageBut is it in the curriculum?• The curriculum is in it!• Mary Kay Polly explains how

• Her students played Minecraft in available spare time

• She wanted to integrate that in her curriculum

• She had students prepare a justification

• They worked the curriculum into Minecraft


3. Combining teaching strategies and technical tools

And the teaching strategy is

•Gamification

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/a-convergence-of-minecraft-and-clil-57860221

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/a-convergence-of-minecraft-and-clil-57860221

Vance Stevens EVO Techno-CLIL Feb 3, 2016

What is Minecraft?

A foreboding but benign view from Jeff’s castle on the EVO Minecraft MOOC creative server


Minecraft basics

Creative

• Users can fly• Unlimited inventories

(build anything, try anything)• Monsters are benign

(no risk of sudden death)• Fanciful builds are possible and

common (examples follow)

Survival

• Users can jump, no flying• Players harvest resources to

• get sticks, make planks, crafting tables, larger objects,

• Mine for resources to craft weapons, pickaxes, supply light and power

• Must devise shelter for night to avoid monsters (cause you to respawn)

• You must maintain health by eating and avoiding pitfalls

• Players enjoy challenge to survive;other players prove helpful

Each user purchases a user ID for less than $30, User and server software is free to downloadThe game has two modes, creative and survival. A night / day cycle is 20 minutes

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/10208/are-the-days-and-nights-in-minecraft-of-equal-length





Why a MOOC?• Massive• Open as in free to

learn ANDresources freely available• Online• Course Stephen Downes 2012; posted in Alan Levine:

http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/

http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/

Vance Stevens at GLoCALL Ahmedabad 2014

Dave Cormier on Complex / Chaotic

http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/

From http://www.slideshare.net/vances/plenary-ahmedabad2014

http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/

http://www.slideshare.net/vances/plenary-ahmedabad2014




EVO Minecraft MOOC’s hidden agenda• EVO Minecraft MOOC is not so

much about Minecraft as• It’s about gamification

• EVO Minecraft MOOC sessions let educators experience • being in a game that that looks

like Minecraft, • but is in fact

a Game Space where they experience gamification

https://plus.google.com/109470953746627527721/posts/84Yf6qqapEv

https://plus.google.com/109470953746627527721/posts/84Yf6qqapEv


Big G and little g gamesFrom Gee, J.P. (2008) “Learning and games.” The ecology of games: Connecting youth, games, and learning. Edited by Katie Salen. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (pp. 21-40). Available:http://ase.tufts.edu/DevTech/courses/readings/Gee_Learning_and_Games_2008.pdf

■The little g game is “the software in the box and all the elements of in-game design”

■The Big G Game is “the social setting into which the game is placed” (p..24)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnEN2Sm4IIQ

http://ase.tufts.edu/DevTech/courses/readings/Gee_Learning_and_Games_2008.pdf






How to play the Big G Game of EVOMC16

The Google+ Community “game board”(explained in next slide)https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112993649763396826671

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112993649763396826671




How to play the Big G Game of EVOMC16• Start at http://evosessions.pbworks.com and find EVO Minecraft MOOC

http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/113561512/2017_EVO_Minecraft_MOOC • This points you to the Google+ Community https://

plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112993649763396826671• Find the sidebar to the right of the community page.

Here you can figure out how to:• Access the syllabus http://tinyurl.com/evomc16-syllabus• Enroll in the course: http://goo.gl/forms/zALHMWsPGX

This is essential in order to be whitelisted on the EVO Minecraft server• Find your missions to accomplish each week http://

missions4evomc.pbworks.com/

http://evosessions.pbworks.com/

http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/113561512/2017_EVO_Minecraft_MOOC

http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/113561512/2017_EVO_Minecraft_MOOC



http://tinyurl.com/evomc16-syllabus

http://tinyurl.com/evomc16-syllabus

http://goo.gl/forms/zALHMWsPGX

http://goo.gl/forms/zALHMWsPGX

http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/



Missions 4 EVO Minecraft MOOC




Gamification is not taught, it is learnedHow can gamification be modeled so that it can be learned?• Set up a game space• Put the components in place• A game board• Links to other components• A little g game to provide

intrinsic motivation• A reward structure

e.g. badges

• And then, play


How EVO Minecraft MOOC operatesOnce the pieces are in place, it just happens• People start to play• They don’t ask many questions

they just get on with it• We use Doodle to schedule

meetings in-world• People post to G+ Community• Participants record missions• Some people like a syllabus,

gamers are happy with Community as Curriculum and MOOCs


Community as Curriculum• Cormier, D. (2008). Rhizomatic education: Community as

curriculum. Innovate, 4(5). Reprinted with permission of the publisher; available:http://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/06/03/rhizomatic-education-community-as-curriculum

http://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/06/03/rhizomatic-education-community-as-curriculum





Why is EVO Minecraft MOOC a Game?• The Big G Game of Minecraft MOOC has rules with • Flexibility, • Goals • Challenges • Awards in the form of

badges • Participants have to figure out

these rules, • The Game is designed

to let them to figure it out• As in any game, it it's more fun if it doesn't play out the way

anyone especially anticipated.


Survival and GamificationSurvival helps us understand gamification• When you enter survival mode

you learn important life skills• You assist and are assisted by

others in world • With cooperation and help you stay alive and learn

• So gamification turns out to be learning through • teamwork• mutual support• meeting challenges • and achieving your goal, whatever it is


Survive and Learn: Examples


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