Tag: Minecraft
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Teaching and Learning with Minecraft Education – Recording of Online CLPL
Read more: Teaching and Learning with Minecraft Education – Recording of Online CLPLWhat happens when you mix one of the world’s most popular games with the serious business of teaching and learning? You get a training session that’s as fun as it is forward‑thinking. Our recent Teaching and Learning with Minecraft Education CLPL virtually brought together colleagues from across the City of Edinburgh Council to explore how…
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Minecraft Education Build League Finals Day
Read more: Minecraft Education Build League Finals DayThe most wonderful day of the year has arrived, no not the first day of the summer holidays… The Minecraft Education Build League Finals Day! Monday 16th of June 2025 saw twenty-eight young people from seven CEC schools descend on the National Museum of Scotland for an in-person Minecraft challenge like no other. The day…
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Using the Book & Quill for Writing tasks in Minecraft Education
Read more: Using the Book & Quill for Writing tasks in Minecraft EducationIn this Digitip, you will learn how to use the Book & Quill for Writing tasks in Minecraft Education. This creates an immersive writing opportunity for learners to explore a Minecraft Education world or task, which can then be exported to a PDF to save in Files or Class Notebook. Recorded on iOS 18.4.1 Watch…
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Minecraft Christmas Build Challenge 2023
Read more: Minecraft Christmas Build Challenge 2023Now that’ve we ran a Christmas Minecraft Build Challenge two years in a row, it might just become an Edinburgh schools tradition. Our build challenges aim to develop learners’ critical thinking, research, teamwork, problem solving, planning, literacy and numeracy skills. Recent challenges have included building moon bases to support human life beyond Earth, designing sustainable…
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Minecraft Christmas Challenge Winners
Read more: Minecraft Christmas Challenge WinnersWell done to all Edinburgh schools that took part in our Minecraft Christmas Challenge. We were so impressed with all the fantastic entries. It was a tough job trying to choose the winners but we got there in the end! Well done to our winning schools and their creative Minecraft snow people.
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Minecraft League Challenge 1 Winners
Read more: Minecraft League Challenge 1 WinnersOur first Edinburgh Build League challenge has finished and we’re able to announce our winners. For those that don’t know, the build league is open to all schools in Edinburgh and consists of five build challenges, concluding in May 23. Our first challenge asked learners to consider what it might be like to live on…
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