Yesterday I received an email from a new core teacher. She asked me: “I have a student in my Study Period class, and for the past couple of weeks he has been on a program called “MineSweep” (or something like that) which he says is for a project for your class. He said that you told him he can use the program to build a dream school. Is this accurate? I just want to make sure that he is doing something school related!” So I replied to her saying Yes.

 It seems like we are at a stage in education where the students are more adept to using technology than the teachers.  For example: This year when I shared previous  “Dream School” project with my students , they asked me whether they can use “Minecraft” instead of Google SketchUp. I told them as long as the program is suitable to learning Chinese, just go ahead.

Here is a sample of Oliver F.’s Dream School. It is obvious for him, Minecraft is the main craft.