This chapter describes the ambitious Minecraft venture is conducted in 2012, when it was new and progressive to make use of Minecraft for educational purposes. It employs typical knowledge-era methods, including scholar interviews, trainer interviews, classroom observation and collection of work samples and artefacts; the most important of these were the Minecraft server and pupil-produced Wikis. What has been significantly attention-grabbing in regards to the means of researching the Aurora56z venture is 'mining' the large volume of information collected by way of the preservation of the Minecraft server as well as the pupil Wikis which recorded the considering and negotiations by the construction of the new world, Aurora56z. Robinson Kynan has previously composed and performed music to accompany readings of sections from The Highway by Cormac McCarthy, a dystopian Cli-Fi novel that explores the relationship between a father and son within the landscape of a dystopic future. This Cli-Fi framing of the curriculum was additionally shared and shaped by all of the teachers within the challenge.
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