HOUR OF CODE CODING TOWN HOW TO
There is a Teacher Walk Through Video: Many educators understandably want to learn what they’re getting into before committing the time to planning how to add a new resource into their limited and precious teaching time.It does not require a login! The Minecraft: Education Edition team have added the one-off Hour of Code lesson to the main landing page when you launch the application, meaning there are no barriers to getting started! Even if your school or students have never used Minecraft:EE before you can run this lesson, and you can download the free application here.
HOUR OF CODE CODING TOWN FULL VERSION
It’s in the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition: previous contributions from the Minecraft team to the Hour of Code have focused on a browser only version in 2D ( see them here), whereas this uses all the goodness of M:EE and the inbuilt Code Editor.It’s self paced: students can work through it in a heavily scaffolded world with clear, easy to comprehend and follow instructions.There are a few key things in this Hour of Code that are especially valuable for educators: If you’re interested, it took me around 20 minutes to complete the ‘required’ elements of the lesson, but there are more extension activities inside the lesson that get students thinking deeper around coding. Here’s an intro video to the new Hour of Code lesson inside of Minecraft: Education Edition:Ĭurrently, I’m working through a large amount of internal professional development focused on topics such as Azure Cloud Services, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, so in the spirit of being a “life long learner” I completed the Hour of Code activities too: The Hour of Code runs between December 9th and 15th and you can register here to officially participate. With a highly relevant topic focused on using AI technology to fight forest fires, students need to use coding across a series of tasks to train a bot that can first recognise fire-risk shrubbery and then deploy the bot to save a village in a fire-risk zone before an impending lightening storm strikes. As the academic year starts to wind up for many schools, teachers are often looking for engaging activities to motivate tiring students who have an eye on the summer break, whilst still delivering robust learning outcomes.Įnter the newly revamped Hour of Code inside of Minecraft: Education Edition.
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