サバイバル Minecraft エコチャレンジ: 持続可能なゲーム

In this advanced version of our best-selling educational Minecraft course "The Sustainability Lab", students will tackle the ideas of protecting and embracing our environment and natural ecosystems, with the added difficulty of playing in the Survival Minecraft game mode! Students will join our server where they'll be tasked with finding food, water, and shelter, all while being conscious of their environmental impact. Our Minecraft classroom will automatically interpret and react to any positive or negative environmental effects that players create, so students will need to be mindful of their resource usage and sustainable practices.

*Formerly known as the Heartcore Sustainability Lab*

** Please note that although our Sustainability Summer Camp and our ongoing Sustainability Lab are not mandatory prerequisites for this course, this class is a direct extension to those ideas, and it is encouraged that your learner has completed at least one. The addition of Survival gameplay adds a level of challenge that students may struggle with, while also balancing the ideas taught in this course.**

Unlike our other courses, students will not be following a lesson-by-lesson plan, but instead, will be taught dynamically along the way by our instructors, who will be in Survival along with them, playing side by side! This allows both the student and the teacher to naturally encounter, problem solve, and think about issues and lessons while playing the game.

**Students who join while the course is underway will be assisted to a point where their player is as well equipped as the other players on the server. This will ensure no student feels left behind or left out.**

As students begin to develop a communal Sustainable Village, they will begin to naturally develop ideas of economic systems, youth justice, governmental systems, and legal systems. Students will tackle these ideas collectively and collaboratively, to eventually develop a naturally functioning sustainable society within Minecraft.

Sample of real-world issues:
- The effects of Carbon and Natural Gasses on our ecosystem
- The importance of the ocean and our world's biomes
- The ethical ideas surrounding consumption and globalization
- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth. How could we demo this in our village?
- Doughnut Economics case study: Amsterdam’s plan
- Douglas Cardinal sustainable plans that acknowledge biodiversity and 7-generations planning

"My teaching style is based on emergent design that acknowledges student voice and choice. I have 20+ years teaching experience in almost every subject and am constantly inspired by student creativity and imagination when they are given an engaging challenge that is relevant to their lives."
- Stefan Rasporich, M. Ed., founder of Infinite Mind Pictures Inc. and creator of "The Learner as Protagonist" learning theory

“I have worked with Stefan for a number of years. He is a passionate teacher, creative designer and enthusiastic learner who explores new ways of teaching and learning to draw best out of his students. With Stefan, learning becomes a joy and the discovery of self, others, and our worlds. I have also learned so much about how students could drive their curriculum by visiting his classes and co-authoring a book chapter.” - Beaumie Kim, Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary

Kim, B., Rasporich, S., & Gupta, D. (2019). Imagining the sustainable future through the construction of fantasy worlds. In P. Sengupta, M. Shanahan, & B. Kim (Eds.), Critical, transdisciplinary and embodied approaches in STEM education (pp. 61–82). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29489-2_4

"This study demonstrates how engaging students in the designs within an art form may integrate and expand the curriculum above and around disciplines, and shows the possibilities of arts immersion as a transdisciplinary and humanistic approach to sustainability education." (p.80)

"While creating sustainable villages situated in their own imagined landscape, its resources, history and culture, land, water, and the sun became living entities and their construction (or architecture) became “a living process” (Cardinal, 1998)." (p.78)

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