Don’t just Play the Game

The twelve kids, ages 11-14, settled into their chairs looking at the opening screen of a computer game called Minecraft. Logan, 14, and Luther, 11 had already open the game and were clicking around. Logan started changing falling rotten Zombie flesh to diamonds (sounds logical) and Luther couldn’t break a block, but he could blow it up and light dirt on fire. During this past school year I had the opportunity to attend a couple of after school sessions of Coding Camp for Kids: Minecraft Mods at Sonoma County Library. The free sessions were...

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