My World Education Edition contains many new functions, such as educators creating and teaching courses through My World, which will make it very interesting and easy to impart knowledge. There is even a special classroom mode to support the application in the education edition, which will display a whole map, including the management settings of the world and so on. At present, official website has included many brand-new educational courses, as well as curriculum plans and beginners' introduction to the world.
At the same time, the education version is an enhanced version compared with the current Win 10 version, which supports 30 people online and instruction input, with an annual fee of $5.
Then the question comes, what can students learn through My World, which is also a concern of parents and teachers.
Judging from the current edition of My World Education, students can at least learn the corresponding knowledge from the following aspects.
Architecture:
To build a complete building, you need not only a wild imagination, but also a corresponding understanding of architectural knowledge's materials and structure, and careful planning before construction, otherwise you can only build some very basic houses. In my world, the characteristics of the game itself can also make the building more concrete, rather than floating on drawings and professional software. In fact, many foreign teachers have applied this game to architecture courses.
Physics:
The attraction of my world is probably the Redstone Raceway except architecture. Redstone circuit has given countless possibilities to my world. You can simulate all the basic components of a computer, including diodes and repeaters, through the Redstone circuit. This big black technology allows many players who are familiar with circuits to show their talents in the game, from the simplest circuit components to hard disk computers, but this requires basic circuit knowledge. The workload of these complex circuits is amazing.
biochemistry
The game characteristics of My World are still very helpful to the construction of molecular models. Students who are tired of plastic models and software dynamic courseware in class may wish to look forward to the exhibition of My World in the future class. Students can observe every detail of these protein molecular chains closely, understand the actual principle of hemoglobin transporting oxygen in muscles, and even fly directly into a hole to understand how water molecules penetrate the cell membrane through osmosis. In order to increase the interest of teaching, there are many treasure boxes in the game, which contain some questions that learners are interested in.
city planning
Today, UN-Habitat (UN-Habitat) has also started to use My World. UN-HABITAT has a project to improve urban public space, helping developing countries to build parks, squares, gymnasiums and other facilities.
pedagogy
Elisa Farrell, a third-grade teacher at Richard J.Lee Primary School, used my world in a project called "Great Destination". She divided 8-to 9-year-old children into 2-3 groups, asked them to choose cities, suburbs, mountains or deserts, and then studied them. In this process, children not only know the difference between renewable energy and non-renewable energy, but also learn the knowledge of trade economy.
procedure
Microsoft announced its cooperation with Code.org, a non-profit computer science education institution, aiming at developing the basic teaching code of My World through Mojang. In short, users can simply understand the programming and setting operation of My World by playing games.
Hadi Patovi, CEO of Code.org, said that My World was chosen as the learning tool because it was "an irresistible game for both girls and boys".
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