RASPBERRY PI-CRAFTPractical Incentives for High-achievers without High Cost

I Admit It! This stuff is completely ripped off from

the following sources: “Python Programming Using Minecraft Pi and

Codecademy” by Craig Richardson– released under Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0

Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi

Where to Find it All Google Drive shared folder

https://goo.gl/piv6p1

Premise Students verbally encouraged to

Initiative Hard Work Enthusiasm

Practical outcome for high achievers Teacher panic Give ‘em more work to keep busy Use ‘em as TA’s

Student Takeaway High Performance =

Extra work Work that no one else has to do Get stuck helping the “slow kids”

Mediocre Performance = I can take it easy and coast I don’t have to do more work I don’t have to be a teacher too

Long Term Consequence Question: Given a long-term (12 year)

reinforcement of those takeaways, what sort of employee is this student likely to become?

Resources for HA students How many sources for low-achievers can

anyone name? How about teaching strategies?

How many of your schools have ACTIVE “gifted/HA” programs?

What about funding resources?

This is NOT a Magic Bullet All students are different. However:

33 million copies of the game have been sold 20% went to children (under 15) Nearly all students have at least HEARD of

Minecraft.

The Appeal Giant digital LEGO set Nearly all children LIKE to create

Unlimited pieces Easy to undo and redo Free reign to do it “their way”

They can show off their creations

Alternatives Alice – CG movies created through

programming Scratch – similar to above, aimed at

younger students MinecraftEDU – a fuller version of

Minecraft that does not require a Mojang account.