Today in class students from Colquitz Middle School came and taught us about Minecraft!

I found it really interesting when the teacher began discussing how she uses a Minecraft Challenge as a method of formative assessment. She has the students design a creation competition for their peers and then host the competition. It usually involves a time limit, and a creative outline so the people participating know what they need to make in the Minecraft world. After the time limit the students judge each creation and can announce a winner or provide scores.

This is super interesting because it allows the students competing to discover how much they actually know by testing their knowledge under a time limit. It also allows the students who have been teaching to understand how much their learners know, what they taught effectively, and what could use more time.

This form of peer assessment could be adapted and used in lots of classes! More info on this can be found at #minecraftedu on Twitter!