- Integrating Minecraft as a means for student exploration of concepts and demibstration of learning
- Teaching coding as a way to build and strengthen student perseverance and problem solving skills
- Building an online library of student-created instructional videos teaching math concepts and skills, similar to MathtrainTV as mentioned by Alan November
With our implementation of GAFE and our purchase of Chromebooks for everyone, the instructional videos are certainly possible and something I have done before as a teacher. While I've never had students create instructional videos, I can definitely see this as a strong learning tool for students as well as an excellent resource for other students. I am excited to use WeVideo to do this, along with a screen casting app, possibly ScreenCastify. My students really enjoyed creating video PSAs last year and did well with Windows Live MovieMaker with very little help from me.
Coding... We have such a need for this at our school! I am somewhat in shock that so few schools teach computer science in today's world. With a game-writing approach I think my students would love this! Code.org has many training links and Tynker, a collection of coding resources with a teacher dashboard (an ISTE find), is also a possibility. So many coding tutorials and projects to choose from. I think I would like to build this into my class on a weekly basis.
Of the three that I'm considering, Minecraft feels the most foreign to me. Although I have Minecraft EDU installed on my laptop, I have not yet explored how to build in it, or how to teach 7th grade math concepts with it. Luckily, @MrBrotherton has plenty of resources to share from his own classroom experiences teaching with minecraft. Lots to do this summer!
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