Essays on Minecraft

Have you always heard of Minecraft but have never experienced its qualities? Well, the time has come to fix it: Minecraft is, in fact, a hugely popular game in which your task will be to dig and build different types of 3D blocks within a…

Numerous studies gather the fact that, used according to pedagogical criteria, videogames can bring interesting benefits to the educational world, which allow complementing (and sometimes even replacing) more “traditional” resources. From the practical point of view, we can choose a videogame that in its conception…

The Importance of Paranormal Activity in Early Minecraft Everyone wants to get the best bang for their buck, and the world of gaming is no exception. With the ability to play as your favorite movie characters, travel to different worlds, or be the mayor of…

Why play Minecraft? Minecraft, the game of blocks where a whole world is generated for you with only blocks, is in the mouth of many. In it, you are a character, choose whether you want to adventure or build. No matter what you do, Minecraft…

Who doesn’t like to play video games? Video games have progressed throughout the years from the Atari in the 1980s all the way to the Ps4 today. There are many platforms in which you can play video games, but computer games are among the more…

In my Urban Scholars classroom in the afternoon, there are many explicit and implicit expectations to be met by both the students and the mentors. Most expectations on the first day are explicit where the instructor lists what she wants in the classroom and how…