Building Futures with Minecraft: From Classroom Learning to Esports Competition

Minecraft is the most comprehensive educational tool on the market. It is also the safest and most secure platform for immersive educational experiences. I'll show you how to leverage Minecraft as a classroom tool, club activity, and competition to engage students, keep them coming to school, and meet all the necessary language, math, science, creative arts, and digital standards while training students to become esports competitors. Let's face it: traditional education doesn't meet our students' needs. It's time to leverage tools our students are already interested in and meet them where they are. We need to be teaching students digital skills like design, coding, online safety, and security, and showing them how to utilize these skills for their future careers. In providing access to Minecraft as a digital learning tool and infusing competition into learning, we also provide the soft skills employers are looking for in communication, collaboration, self-regulation, determination, critical thinking, and strategic planning. Let's learn how to make learning fun and exciting using Minecraft competitions. Attendees should have the newest version of Minecraft Education downloaded to their device (currently 1.21.93). The link provided will download the most current version. I recommend a short review of the Minecraft Education Esports worlds. We will be hosting a brief Build Battle during the session. Email the lead speaker with any questions. Minecraft Education will run on any device, phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop, or Mac. Please bring a charger for the device you choose to use during the session. Here are the links to access the necessary content downloads: Minecraft Education Minecraft Esports Resources