Kening Zhu
ABSTRACT
Minecraft is the best-selling and the most popular digital sandbox games, allowing children to freely create their own buildings and objects. It has been widely used in education. In this research, we developed a real-scale Forbidden City in Minecraft, as a history education platform for Hong Kong secondary schools. The platform allows teachers to manage the class in Minecraft, meanwhile preserving the freedom for students to explore, collaborate, and create. We piloted the platform with 3 teachers and 50 students, and collected feedbacks on the teaching and the learning experience, for future development.
- Bebbington, S. (2014). A Case Study of the Use of the Game Minecraft and Its Affinity Spaces for Information Literacy Development in Teen Gamers (Doctoral dissertation, Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa).Google Scholar
- Bos, B., Wilder, L., Cook, M., & O'Donnell, R. (2014). Learning mathematics through Minecraft. Teaching Children Mathematics, 21(1), 56--59.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Brand, J., & Kinash, S. (2013). Crafting minds in Minecraft.Google Scholar
- Burnett, C. (2016). Being together in classrooms at the interface of the physical and virtual: implications for collaboration in on/off-screen sites. Learning, Media and Technology, 41(4), 566--589.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Persson, M., & Bergensten, J. (2011). Minecraft. Computer software}. Stockholm, Sweden: Mojang AB. Retrieved from http://minecraft. net.Google Scholar
- Repenning, A., Webb, D. C., Brand, C., Gluck, F., Grover, R., Miller, S., ... & Song, M. (2014). Beyond minecraft: Facilitating computational thinking through modeling and programming in 3d. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 34(3), 68--71.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Sáez-López, J. M., Miller, J., Vázquez-Cano, E., & Domínguez-Garrido, M. C. (2015). Exploring application, attitudes and integration of video games: MinecraftEdu in middle school.Google Scholar
- Smeaton, D. (2012). Minecraft as a Teaching ToolA Statistical Study of Teachers' Experience Using Minecraft in the Classroom (Doctoral dissertation, Master's Thesis. Nathan: University of Griffith).Google Scholar
- South China Morning Post. (2015, April) St Clare's Girls' School cuts Chinese history for lack of student interest. URL: http://yp.scmp.com/news/hongkong/article/95907/st-clares-girls-school-cutschinese-history-lack-student-interest.Google Scholar
- TeacherGaming, L. L. C. (2012). MinecraftEdu {Video game}. TeacherGaming LLC, New York, NY.Google Scholar
- Wong, G. K., Cheung, H. Y., Ching, E. C., & Huen, J. M. (2015, December). School perceptions of coding education in K-12: A large scale quantitative study to inform innovative practices. In Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 5--10). IEEE.Google Scholar
- Chinese History Curriculum (Secondary 1 - 3). Education Bureau, Hong Kong. URL: http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/curriculumdevelopment/kla/pshe/CSS13CH.pdf.Google Scholar
- McAuley, E., Duncan, T., & Tammen, V. V. (1989). Psychometric properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory in a competitive sport setting: A confirmatory factor analysis. Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 60(1), 48--58.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Teaching and Learning of Chinese History in Minecraft: A Pilot Case-Study in Hong Kong Secondary Schools
Recommendations
The Bryn Celli Ddu Minecraft Experience: A Workflow and Problem-Solving Case Study in the Creation of an Archaeological Reconstruction in Minecraft for Cultural Heritage Education
Special Issue on Culture Games and Regular PapersThis article explores the technical and interpretative issues surrounding the creation of a Minecraft Education Edition world for use by primary age school children (5–11 years). The project team undertook to create a Minecraft version of the ...
Comments