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TY - JOUR
T1 - Near and far
T2 - engaging students with place through Minecraft
AU - Hobbs, Laura
AU - Behenna, Sarah
AU - Bentley, Sophie
AU - Stevens, Carly
PY - 2023/9/30
Y1 - 2023/9/30
N2 - Minecraft is an extremely popular computer game and educational tool. It provides various place-based facilities, with schools, towns and islands recreated, and geology and archaeology made available to explore in-game. In this ‘Spotlight On … ’ article we offer a synopsis of some of the existing resources created using this package. We also look at how Minecraft is used to engage with real-world places and features.
AB - Minecraft is an extremely popular computer game and educational tool. It provides various place-based facilities, with schools, towns and islands recreated, and geology and archaeology made available to explore in-game. In this ‘Spotlight On … ’ article we offer a synopsis of some of the existing resources created using this package. We also look at how Minecraft is used to engage with real-world places and features.
KW - Earth-Surface Processes
KW - Geography, Planning and Development
U2 - 10.1080/00167487.2023.2260221
DO - 10.1080/00167487.2023.2260221
M3 - Journal article
VL - 108
SP - 134
EP - 140
JO - Geography
JF - Geography
SN - 0016-7487
IS - 3
ER -