Top 12 Things I wish I knew about Minecraft Earlier
There are many amazing things I've learned about Minecraft over the years: useful settings or options, in-game functionality, game design philosophies and techniques, or amazing community open-source tools! This knowledge has been provided by students, other educators/experts/enthusiasts/content builders, or simply through experimentation and often sifting through hours upon hours of YouTube content, and it has levelled up my own skills. To those that share, I am eternally grateful! So, for your benefit, in no particular order are 12 of the top tips I wish I'd known earlier (I could probably list a lot more, but... future blog content!): Codebuilder can be disabled . That's right! As much as I love codebuilder, there are times I don't want students exploiting the codebuilder to work around challenges I've created. That said, I've been no less impressed when they do. Like Captain Kirk reprogramming the Kobyashi Maru simulator to change the conditions so he coul...
