Gamifying Teacher Professional Development through Minecraft MOOC at TESOL Arabia 2016

Gamifying Teacher Professional
Development through Minecraft
MOOC
Vance Stevens presenting at
TESOL Arabia, Dubai, March 10, 2016

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What is Minecraft?
Vance Stevens TESOL Arabia March 11, 2016
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 download
The 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

How can Minecraft support education?
Unlike other computer / video games, Minecraft is
 Player vs. game (not player vs. player)
 Infinitely Creative – (unlike Second Life, everyone is a builder there)
 Minecraft has been called a TOY for
embedding content in a gamified matrix
learning languages; see …
Smolčec, M. and Smolčec, F. (2014). Using Minecraft for Learning
English, with an introduction by Vance Stevens. TESL-EJ 18, 2:1-15.
Available: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej70/int.pdf and http://www.tesl-
ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej70/ej70int/

Marijana and Filip Smolčec, co-authors
Filip Smolčec developing his presentation skills by
presenting his YouTube videos on Minecraft
at the age of 11 at 2014 RSCON online conference
https://sas.elluminate.com/drtbl?sid=2008350&suid=D.
3F83255C4DDFF6BD54C70F58111C4E

EVO Minecraft MOOC’s hidden agenda
EVOMC16 is not so much about
Minecraft as
It’s about gamification
EVO Minecraft MOOC session lets
educators experience
being in a game that that looks
like Minecraft,
but is in fact a Game space
where they can
meet other educators who are
learning how their students can
benefit from gamified
environments

Big G and little g games
From 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

How EVOMC16 inculcates gamification
EVO Minecraft MOOC participants learn through a model that
includes
 Going to a Google+ community “game board” and figuring out from there what
they have to do to play the Big G Game of EVOMC16
 Practicing in the little g game of Minecraft in creative mode,
 Then graduate to honing understanding of Big G Gamification by coping with
survival and cooperating with other players in the more challenging little g game
environment.
The 'aha' moment occurs when the players succeed and realize that if what
they were trying to teach were placed in such a context, it would not only
become more engaging to the learners, but their students would be taking
their own learning into their own hands. This can create a powerful learning
environment, and educators need to experience it for themselves in order to
understand its implications. (Stevens, 2016)
http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2016/01/week-3-playing-big-g-game-of-evo.html

How to play the Big G Game of EVOMC16
The Google+ Community
“game board”
(explained in next slide)

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/103533067/2016_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/

Weekly Missions
to Accomplish
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/

Big G Game Missions Accomplished
 Those participating are able to find this sheet and play the Big G Game by filling it in with
links pointing to evidence of their EVOMC16 missions accomplished
 As they accomplish missions, they record them on our open Google Doc spreadsheet
http://tinyurl.com/evomc16-badgetrack
 Accomplishments are openly viewable, links verifiable, badge criteria credible

Big G Game Endgame:
Accomplish Missions,
Earn a Badge
Weeks 1-2
Orient, Declare
 Introduce yourself on our Google+
Community
 Install and enter Bb Collaborate
 Fill in the Google registration form
 Reflect on your activities for Weeks 1-2
 Join our Missions Accomplished Google
sheet
 Join us in Minecraft creative mode
Weeks 3-5
Network, Cluster and Focus
 Explore networks in Minecraft
 Reflect on experience in Minecraft -
Last week in Creative Mode
 Engage survival mode in Minecraft
 Final reflection on your experiences
 Contribute to a crowd-sourced
document of resources

Examples of potential for learning
 Sun Jan 17 - Jeff Kuhn on Minecraft: An Introduction to What's Possible
http://learning2gether.net/2016/01/17/learning2gether-with-jeff-kuhn-on-minecraft-an-
introduction-to-whats-possible/
 Sun Jan 24 - Bron Stuckey and EVO Minecraft MOOC: Projects and challenges –
designing and building http://learning2gether.net/2016/01/24/bron-stuckey-and-evo-
minecraft-mooc-projects-and-challenges-designing-and-building/

Thorsten Groß's students conduct tour of
Ricarda-Huch-Schule for EVOMC16
http://learning2gether.net/2016/01/31/thorsten-gross-students-conduct-tour-of-ricarda-
huch-schule-for-evo-minecraft-mooc/
Shows evidence of student learning of
micro skills necessary to
• plan and construct complex build
• organize and sustain the project
• Communicate in English on a world
stage about their accomplishment
https://paradigmagnus.wordpress.com/
2016/01/14/minecraft-mooc-tumbling-
down-the-world-of-cubes/

Flying around Ricarda Huch-Shule

Networking:
Mircea’s other
world

Mircea in early stages of building
his Amazing Roller coaster

We ride on participant Mircea Patrascu’s
Amazing Roller Coaster
https://youtu.be/nJQhvLjtQn0
https://evominecraftmp.wordpre
ss.com/2016/01/28/a-day-in-
evo-minecraft-world/

Mircea’s presentation on March 6, 2016 on
Learning2gether
https://youtu.be/RbWvZF_hCHA

Linda Gielen’s nurturing abode
https://youtu.be/tyngfA_e0XQ

Playing the little g game of Minecraft
on the EVO flat map creative server
Jeff’s castle, view from fire cluster on top

EVOMC16 Participants in the little g game
https://plus.google.com/10989461802
0189345959/posts/epWNDxXccVG

Participant Yvonne Harrison
Yvonne Harrison
documents some
impressive
structures on her
Flickr feed, linked
from here
http://yvonneh.e
dublogs.org/201
6/01/26/evo_mo
oc-minecraft-
server-5/

EVOMC16
Participant Beth
Evans
https://eslbeth.wordpress.com/2
016/01/25/prepping-for-survival/

EVOMC16 Participant Beth O’Connell
http://booklady9.edublogs.org/20
16/01/24/inworld-maps-in-
minecraft/

EVOMC16
Participant
Ellen Clegg
https://mcecsite.wordpres
s.com/2016/01/23/finally-
getting-to-play-around-
woo-hoooo/

My son Dusty and
Dad build a house
This one was designed and mostly built by
Dusty, who was responsible for the pool and
very very hot tub. Dusty is over 30 years old.
Dad learned properties of liquids in Minecraft
by helping to add those substances
Minecraft is an excellent toy for parent-
child creative collaboration

Beware Filip’s Evil Rabbits

Aaron’s
Zombie Pit
Safe, enjoyable practice for
survival mode

Survival and Gamification
Survival 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

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
As in any game, it it's more fun if it doesn't play out
the way anyone especially anticipated.Vance Stevens TESOL Arabia March 11, 2016

In this game you set your own goals
By achieving your goals in the game
Light bulbs go off in your head and light your way
to some realization of
how what you are learning in EVOMC16
might work to meet your real world challenges

Vance Stevens
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http://advanceducation.blogspot.ae/2016/01/week-3-playing-big-g-game-of-evo.html

Gamifying Teacher Professional Development through Minecraft MOOC at TESOL Arabia 2016

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