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Would you be interested in an Educational tag?

EmpathyHeals's Avatar EmpathyHeals5/6/16 5:34 pm
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5/6/2016 5:50 pm
SilverSniper512's Avatar SilverSniper512
I opened a ticket you can see here http://www.planetminecraft.com/tickets/1159/ asking for an Educational tag to be used by me and other members of the Minecraft community who want to promote education in Minecraft. I would like a tag I could use for projects like these http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/ ... t-academy/ that is more overtly seen and accessed by others.

One moderator worries there may not be enough educational projects http://www.planetminecraft.com/tickets/1159/?#comments but I believe if there is a tag the community and projects will grow and increase.

I have seen several topics get very popular on PMC related to some kind of school or the use of educational content but it didn't seem like there was a more cohesive place for people who were interested to promote or request or connect more formally. I made a server with educational content but I find it very hard to connect with others also without lone posts that seem scattered and time-bound. What are your thoughts about an educational tag - would you use it? Would it encourage you to check it out, post to it, or how would you use it? Do you think there would be value in adding it, and do you think if there are is more of a community then some educational servers/projects can get really good given the collaboration that players interested in this could find here?

Minecraft is just such a great platform for education that implementing an educational tag would create the space for a lot of awesome projects to be added. Here you can see some of our educational items as an example of how I implement education on my server: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ ... ecraftema/ but there are so many ways to be creative with this type of endeavor in Minecraft. I also have NPC's that drop educational loot, quests, and minigames that use the educational items. I believe others would like to see more of these kinds of projects from others also and those who do like to promote education in Minecraft will be grateful to have a community, but it would help to hear if you agree also. For example, I write some quests but I'm not a programmer; it would be amazing to have a place where I can see some educational plugins.

Thanks for reading and if you would like to support the ticket feel free to comment while it's open!
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05/06/2016 5:50 pm
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SilverSniper512
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I personally am young to be running this project on Empathy; EMA - Empathy Minecraft Academy, considering I'm only graduating from grade 8 this year. Yet I am the principal of the school, and PF (Project Facilitator) of EMA. I've seen many builds, a few mods, and plugins that are educational based. Most teens, or younger, tend to not enjoy learning, let alone going to school in general. Though I believe the fact that the server EmpathyHeals has created, already having a great atmosphere of nice people, makes learning fun. So adding an Educational tag for projects could allow other projects, servers, plugins, or mods, that are educational based, the ability to be seen, used, and enjoyed.
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05/06/2016 5:40 pm
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It sounds like it would be a great idea. I hope your request gets added!
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