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SilverDomination wrote:

Not yet, but I'm going to show it to her today! I finished last night at 10:00! Here it is! I replaced my real name with SilverDomination, & removed my age though.

MineCraft- A fun game with educational purposes!

By: SilverDomination

  Hi. I'm SilverDomination I'm a rather experienced programmer, & a skilled musician. I'm writing this paper to prove that the game “MineCraft” is both fun & educational!
  It all started when I first heard of the game. At the time, the game was in beta, & I didn't have much interest into looking any further into it. Not much later, MineCraft became a popular topic on Scratch, the program I use to create games. People had been talking about MineCraft servers, building cities, & other MineCraft things that at the time I didn't understand. Throughout the course of time, MineCraft became much more popular, & eventually, when I saw my friends playing it on an iPad, it actually looked kind of fun, & I tried playing on it. I only got like 5 minutes of experience, but realized something: MineCraft has endless possibilities. That day, I was totally hooked! MineCraft seemed like the best game ever!
Not much later, I asked my mom if I could buy the game, & I didn't get the response I wanted. My mom said it's a waste of memory, & time (or something like that). At this point, knowing quite a lot about MineCraft, I tried to give my mom reasons it's educational, but unfortunately, I could only think of like one or two. Then I had the idea! I decided I'd do some research, & write an essay about why MineCraft is educational. Not long after, I searched the topic on google, & the first page of the search had many reasons why MineCraft is educational!
My first resource was on a website about fun games that can be used for educational purposes! I started reading, & to my surprise, MineCraft is being used in many tech classes! To my surprise, the person writing the article is a tech teacher himself! Anyways, later in the article, the writer thinks “Now, how can I use this with my students?”. After that, he shows ideas he came up with. One idea is to have the students write a journal entry everyday about what happened that day, which reminds me of a project my class did in social studies in the 5th grade. Another idea he had was to collaborate with other students to build the perfect society, which is similar to a project my class did in language arts where we had to design our utopia. Another idea is to create circuits (some have made basic computers) out of red stone dust! This is similar to the electricity unit my class did in the 5th grade. Also, if you have a few note blocks, a pressure panel, & of course reds tone dust, you can play chords, & possibly basic songs! After reading this article, I'd realized MineCraft is more educational than I could imagine! I decided to keep looking.
My second resource was actually on the MineCraft forums! There was a topic about why MineCraft is educational. Many people posted many good reasons, but there was one post that really stuck out. This person said she's a mother of two teen boys, & one day, one of them showed her MineCraft, & the whole family loved it! She started using it to teach her sons & other kids about many things. She also mentioned recreating historical events in MineCraft, which in my opinion, seems pretty cool! The post soon came to an end, & I moved on to my last resource.
This resource didn't specify who wrote it, or what kind of website it is, but it did have several examples for educational uses. Some ideas I already saw that they mentioned was the usage of red stone dust, & recreating historical events. One thing that I didn't see was recreating historical buildings using the correct material, dimensions, etc. Not much else was said though.
One thing I realized after this is that it can also spark your creativity in many ways, & that there are certainly more reasons beyond my research that MineCraft is educational, but this concludes my research paper on why MineCraft is fun, & educational.

Not gonna work.

The fact that you are on an electronic, like a computer or a iPad, completely defeats the purpose, because radioactivity is entering your brain. It's gonna be a waste of breath and time, showing her. Sorry, but it's the truth.

SilverDomination wrote:

@undefeated, I'll fix the grammar later. I'm at school right now, & I'll show it to my mom when I get home from chess club.
@codebreaker, ... (I don't really know how to respond to that.

I've tried different methods.

Codebreaker wrote:

SilverDomination wrote:

Not yet, but I'm going to show it to her today! I finished last night at 10:00! Here it is! I replaced my real name with SilverDomination, & removed my age though.

MineCraft- A fun game with educational purposes!

By: SilverDomination

  Hi. I'm SilverDomination I'm a rather experienced programmer, & a skilled musician. I'm writing this paper to prove that the game “MineCraft” is both fun & educational!
  It all started when I first heard of the game. At the time, the game was in beta, & I didn't have much interest into looking any further into it. Not much later, MineCraft became a popular topic on Scratch, the program I use to create games. People had been talking about MineCraft servers, building cities, & other MineCraft things that at the time I didn't understand. Throughout the course of time, MineCraft became much more popular, & eventually, when I saw my friends playing it on an iPad, it actually looked kind of fun, & I tried playing on it. I only got like 5 minutes of experience, but realized something: MineCraft has endless possibilities. That day, I was totally hooked! MineCraft seemed like the best game ever!
Not much later, I asked my mom if I could buy the game, & I didn't get the response I wanted. My mom said it's a waste of memory, & time (or something like that). At this point, knowing quite a lot about MineCraft, I tried to give my mom reasons it's educational, but unfortunately, I could only think of like one or two. Then I had the idea! I decided I'd do some research, & write an essay about why MineCraft is educational. Not long after, I searched the topic on google, & the first page of the search had many reasons why MineCraft is educational!
My first resource was on a website about fun games that can be used for educational purposes! I started reading, & to my surprise, MineCraft is being used in many tech classes! To my surprise, the person writing the article is a tech teacher himself! Anyways, later in the article, the writer thinks “Now, how can I use this with my students?”. After that, he shows ideas he came up with. One idea is to have the students write a journal entry everyday about what happened that day, which reminds me of a project my class did in social studies in the 5th grade. Another idea he had was to collaborate with other students to build the perfect society, which is similar to a project my class did in language arts where we had to design our utopia. Another idea is to create circuits (some have made basic computers) out of red stone dust! This is similar to the electricity unit my class did in the 5th grade. Also, if you have a few note blocks, a pressure panel, & of course reds tone dust, you can play chords, & possibly basic songs! After reading this article, I'd realized MineCraft is more educational than I could imagine! I decided to keep looking.
My second resource was actually on the MineCraft forums! There was a topic about why MineCraft is educational. Many people posted many good reasons, but there was one post that really stuck out. This person said she's a mother of two teen boys, & one day, one of them showed her MineCraft, & the whole family loved it! She started using it to teach her sons & other kids about many things. She also mentioned recreating historical events in MineCraft, which in my opinion, seems pretty cool! The post soon came to an end, & I moved on to my last resource.
This resource didn't specify who wrote it, or what kind of website it is, but it did have several examples for educational uses. Some ideas I already saw that they mentioned was the usage of red stone dust, & recreating historical events. One thing that I didn't see was recreating historical buildings using the correct material, dimensions, etc. Not much else was said though.
One thing I realized after this is that it can also spark your creativity in many ways, & that there are certainly more reasons beyond my research that MineCraft is educational, but this concludes my research paper on why MineCraft is fun, & educational.

Not gonna work.

The fact that you are on an electronic, like a computer or a iPad, completely defeats the purpose, because radioactivity is entering your brain. It's gonna be a waste of breath and time, showing her. Sorry, but it's the truth.

Who uses things made of radioactive materials? I don't think you understand what electric is, it's stored in the battery of the ipad/pod/thing and slowly released into the device, no ipod/pad/thing has a nuclear reactor built into it. And nuclear substances just extend the life of cells, meaning they will mutate, doesn't mean you suddenly become thick because you're holding a piece of pluronium (different to plutonium, by the way).

Alternatives wrote:

Apparently its also Christian-based.

That's educational. 

Liru wrote:

Codebreaker wrote:

SilverDomination wrote:

Not yet, but I'm going to show it to her today! I finished last night at 10:00! Here it is! I replaced my real name with SilverDomination, & removed my age though.

MineCraft- A fun game with educational purposes!

By: SilverDomination

  Hi. I'm SilverDomination I'm a rather experienced programmer, & a skilled musician. I'm writing this paper to prove that the game “MineCraft” is both fun & educational!
  It all started when I first heard of the game. At the time, the game was in beta, & I didn't have much interest into looking any further into it. Not much later, MineCraft became a popular topic on Scratch, the program I use to create games. People had been talking about MineCraft servers, building cities, & other MineCraft things that at the time I didn't understand. Throughout the course of time, MineCraft became much more popular, & eventually, when I saw my friends playing it on an iPad, it actually looked kind of fun, & I tried playing on it. I only got like 5 minutes of experience, but realized something: MineCraft has endless possibilities. That day, I was totally hooked! MineCraft seemed like the best game ever!
Not much later, I asked my mom if I could buy the game, & I didn't get the response I wanted. My mom said it's a waste of memory, & time (or something like that). At this point, knowing quite a lot about MineCraft, I tried to give my mom reasons it's educational, but unfortunately, I could only think of like one or two. Then I had the idea! I decided I'd do some research, & write an essay about why MineCraft is educational. Not long after, I searched the topic on google, & the first page of the search had many reasons why MineCraft is educational!
My first resource was on a website about fun games that can be used for educational purposes! I started reading, & to my surprise, MineCraft is being used in many tech classes! To my surprise, the person writing the article is a tech teacher himself! Anyways, later in the article, the writer thinks “Now, how can I use this with my students?”. After that, he shows ideas he came up with. One idea is to have the students write a journal entry everyday about what happened that day, which reminds me of a project my class did in social studies in the 5th grade. Another idea he had was to collaborate with other students to build the perfect society, which is similar to a project my class did in language arts where we had to design our utopia. Another idea is to create circuits (some have made basic computers) out of red stone dust! This is similar to the electricity unit my class did in the 5th grade. Also, if you have a few note blocks, a pressure panel, & of course reds tone dust, you can play chords, & possibly basic songs! After reading this article, I'd realized MineCraft is more educational than I could imagine! I decided to keep looking.
My second resource was actually on the MineCraft forums! There was a topic about why MineCraft is educational. Many people posted many good reasons, but there was one post that really stuck out. This person said she's a mother of two teen boys, & one day, one of them showed her MineCraft, & the whole family loved it! She started using it to teach her sons & other kids about many things. She also mentioned recreating historical events in MineCraft, which in my opinion, seems pretty cool! The post soon came to an end, & I moved on to my last resource.
This resource didn't specify who wrote it, or what kind of website it is, but it did have several examples for educational uses. Some ideas I already saw that they mentioned was the usage of red stone dust, & recreating historical events. One thing that I didn't see was recreating historical buildings using the correct material, dimensions, etc. Not much else was said though.
One thing I realized after this is that it can also spark your creativity in many ways, & that there are certainly more reasons beyond my research that MineCraft is educational, but this concludes my research paper on why MineCraft is fun, & educational.

Not gonna work.

The fact that you are on an electronic, like a computer or a iPad, completely defeats the purpose, because radioactivity is entering your brain. It's gonna be a waste of breath and time, showing her. Sorry, but it's the truth.

Who uses things made of radioactive materials? I don't think you understand what electric is, it's stored in the battery of the ipad/pod/thing and slowly released into the device, no ipod/pad/thing has a nuclear reactor built into it. And nuclear substances just extend the life of cells, meaning they will mutate, doesn't mean you suddenly become thick because you're holding a piece of pluronium (different to plutonium, by the way).

Yes. Plutonium is a chemical that makes things go boom. That's idiot for Plutonium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with the chemical symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

slinger wrote:

Red stone is hardly anything like electricity. Might as well take that off your list 

Actually, the can teach you a lot about AND gates and all that which are in real computers.

werdna123 wrote:

slinger wrote:

Red stone is hardly anything like electricity. Might as well take that off your list 

Actually, the can teach you a lot about AND gates and all that which are in real computers.

Ok, i'll give you that. It is sort of like electricity. But there are no circuits which makes it not like electricity thus creating bad habits (you'll find that out soon if you wire stuff) when working with electricity. I know a little about electricity and what I have to say is that no you can't win with that argument.

Liru wrote:

slinger wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

Actually, the can teach you a lot about AND gates and all that which are in real computers.

Ok, i'll give you that. It is sort of like electricity. But there are no circuits which makes it not like electricity thus creating bad habits (you'll find that out soon if you wire stuff) when working with electricity. I know a little about electricity and what I have to say is that no you can't win with that argument.

So? Eclipse doesn't use blocks like Scratch, yet Scratch is still a programming tool to get a proper understanding.

Redstone is just boiled down to core functionality.

YOu can say it's similar to electricity. You can't say it can teach you about electricity. There is like no way. Eclipse you type, scratch you drag. Electricity you wire in a circuit minecraft you wire out in one direction. It has basic functionality but use something else of you want to learn about electricity. YOu'll get no where by playing around with minecraft.

Liru wrote:

slinger wrote:

Liru wrote:

So? Eclipse doesn't use blocks like Scratch, yet Scratch is still a programming tool to get a proper understanding.

Redstone is just boiled down to core functionality.

YOu can say it's similar to electricity. You can't say it can teach you about electricity. There is like no way. Eclipse you type, scratch you drag. Electricity you wire in a circuit minecraft you wire out in one direction. It has basic functionality but use something else of you want to learn about electricity. YOu'll get no where by playing around with minecraft.

It's good to learn logic, but don't rule everything into electric, as it's simplified.

You have a point. But I would only use redstone for a second grader it's so simplified. If you want to learn logic get a small electronic kit. I remember I used to have one It was so much fun 

An essay? Well:

Why MineCraft is a tool that can help me

Minecraft is a fun, simple game involving where the player wakes up in a randomly generated world made out of blocks. There are many blocks like sand, grass, dirt, wood, that sort of thing. You start by making a house then soon, the game moves on further. Once you have made a reasonable house, you will need to start to find ores. Ores are found in caves and can be mined with a pickaxe, hence the name Minecraft.

These can be smelted in a furnace to create more better tools, and other types of block - like pistons or armor. When you explore larger caves, and at night, you will encounter monsters. You will need to get rid of them to gain more resources, but don't worry, combat does not feature gore. The more resources you collect, the larger your houses are, the more impressive your decoration is. And soon, you can go through a portal.

Through the portal is a dark and hell-like dimension, full of lava and 'nether' blocks. Since a recent update, you can find randomly generated mansions where you'll find unique monsters with a reward that can help you move on in the game. Back into the normal world, you'll need to find an underground stronghold where another, different portal is.

Go through the portal to find a even more obscure realm where you will find, the boss. In the appropriately named The End, you need to defeat the boss to complete the game.

The game gives creativity attributes and if you do go online, social skills to communicate on what you and your friend(s) should do next. I respect your opinion on if I can buy Minecraft or not, but I'd appreciate it if you said yes.

Magnie wrote:

While learning about writing essays at my school, I've been taught to only refer to people in third-person like "Students can create school projects in Minecraft." not "You/I can create school projects in Minecraft."

Depends. If you're talking to the person directly in a persuasive essay, I would use 2nd person.