ImmersiveMinds

24/11/2022

Since 2017, Dig It! and ImmersiveMinds have brought Scotland’s stories to life by recreating archaeological sites in Minecraft ⚒️

Today, the Crafting the Past website hosts nine explorable maps of Scottish sites, such as museums, a castle and a hillfort: https://www.craftingthepast.co.uk/

Let us know your favourite site in the comments below.

(📷 © Crafting the Past)

18/03/2021

The long wait is over! Our Swedish Grade 5 students finally got to meet the real St Kilda Archeologist! After a virtual excavation of our St Kilda map, the students had lots of questions about the artefacts they found. This photo is the moment Craig showed us how the whetstone the students dug up would have been used to sharpen swords and spears! We were absolutely delighted and the students were utterly enthralled!

15/03/2021

We’ve been working with Grade 5 students in Sweden this morning on a virtual archeology dig using ! The students were excavating our Minecraft St Kilda map, looking for evidence that vikings came to . So far, this is what they have found...do you think there is any evidence here of Vikings?

Our MinecraftEdu St Kilda map will soon be available for educators to download at www.craftingthepast.co.uk 🤩

08/03/2021

We were so excited to be working with Students in Sweden this morning on a very top secret project (coming soon!). Thanks to Wes L and to Jeff Sanders from ! and to Emma Nääs at Jonslundsskola - your students are incredible!

We’ll be working on the project over the coming weeks and we’ll launch it on www.craftingthepast.co.uk where it will be freely available for everyone to download and play.

Discover Scotland's history, heritage and archaeology through digitally recreated sites. Download the free maps to start exploring.

14/01/2021

Fun fact! Our resources have had over 138,000 downloads! But why, we hear you ask! They are fun, they are free and they pack in the learning, as this article in Forbes Magazine says:

‘In the Pirate Cove lesson, students are incentivised to develop Creativity, Decision Making, Communication and Collaboration skills. The building and planning aspects of Minecraft also encourage visualisation and 3D Thinking. All of these skills will serve students well in future learning and in STEM-oriented professional environments.’

You can check out out the full article https://tinyurl.com/ybaszual

You can download the resources for free from our website https://www.immersiveminds.com/minecraft-esports

We were commissioned by Microsoft to explore the learning potential of Minecraft: Education Edition for esports, In particular we:

06/01/2021

Last year partnered with Minecraft: Education Edition to bring you esports for education. The 6 unique worlds we created have been used in schools all around the world, including in South Africa, Australia and the US, and have been particularly helpful during lockdown learning.

If you’d like to find out what esports are, and how they can be used for learning check out our esports blog series, where you’ll find the links to all of our worlds as well as our Educator Framework support documents

What if you could create the perfect problem setting for your students - one that immerses them fully, develops high-level cognitive skills, and sharpens decisi

04/01/2021

Happy New Year and welcome back to all of you who ventured out to work today! We hope you’ve had a wonderful, restful holiday.

are back and we are preparing some exciting new resources to launch later this month. We’re so excited to share them with you. Watch this space 🤩

23/12/2020

have been a little quieter than usual this year, as we adjusted to the global pandemic and all the changes that it brought. We decided that it was crucially important to put the well-being of our team at the very heart of our approach, and with that in mind, we took 2020 one small step at a time. However, rest assured, we have been working hard on some truly innovative projects that we will be bringing to you in 2021! We are super excited already!

In the meantime we’d like to wish our clients, our colleagues and all of our friends a very restful and joy-filled holiday ⛄️🎄⛄️ and we can’t wait to share what we have in store for you in 2021!

Be safe, be well and be kind to each other,

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24/07/2020

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14/07/2020

This week our spotlight series focuses on our Gold Rush world. We explore how these worlds provide opportunities for students to develop complex skills including creative and critical thinking, leadership, negotiation and collaboration. We also hear from students about how these esports worlds enabled them to develop vital social networks during lockdown, and helped them deepen their understanding of working within Minecraft learning environments http://ow.ly/GnrA50AxTmP