xuegoo/educraft

A Minecraft Mod to create a collaborative game that teaches key stage 2 maths

#Quick Links

Interim report
Final report
Website
Tutorial Videos
Documentation

#Description

The EduCraft project is concerned with developing a series of extensions for the popular computer game Minecraft, aimed at promoting collaborative learning in primary schools, particularly with reference to numeracy education.

#Why is EduCraft Needed?

As a game Minecraft is currently very popular with a wide range of age groups including the 8 to 11 age range. At this stage in their development one of the most important learning outcomes that are sort is the ability to learn collaboratively.

It is difficult for children to understand the reason for collaboration when so much of what they do is competitive but in a lot of situations learning can be much more effective if done collaboratively.

Survival & World Based Games present a naturally collaborative environment & with EduCraft we plan to leverage this environment in order to create a learning tool to teach Key Stage 2 Maths & the advantages of collaboration.

EduCraft is being developed as a mod for the Minecraft game (using Minecraft Forge) to create an environment in which players can only progress by collaborating with others. The source for the project can be viewed here

Weekly Backups of the codebase are stored on this site.

#Group Roles

Project Leader - Janos Bana
Developers - Ian Knight & Eze Benson
Editor - Tosin Afolabi
Level Designer - Ying Wang
Testing - Ali Kerr

#Minutes

07-10-2013
24-10-2013
31-10-2013
07-11-2013
21-11-2013
05-12-2013
03-02-2014
17-12-2014
03-03-2014
24-03-2014
31-03-2014

#Deliverables

Group Project Site - Done
Interim reports - View
Final reports - View
Documentation - View
Software - Done
Open Day Stand - April 9 2014
Presentation - April 11 2014