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Author Topic: what if blockland was used in schools for education?  (Read 3359 times)

Then how is minecraft used in schools?

ever heard of boolean logic?

y'know, what redstone wiring is based off of?

All I can see events teaching is mainly cause and effect...

If Blockland was used in education, everyone will get the wrong idea of "Physics."
>implying by the time its edited for schools physics isnt updated

>implying by the time its edited for schools physics isnt updated

Oh yes, Badspot didn't create perfectly realistic physics because he was hoping nobody would notice. All he has to do is flick his wand and its fixed for schoolz. Lulz lol1@#!.

That would be really fun in my opinion, everyone on a LAN server, the teacher as an admin, and two teams of students who needs to build stuff that the teacher tells them to do before the other, or some sort of City RPG thing saying what is good to do and bad to do while on city
« Last Edit: December 24, 2012, 04:47:40 AM by Filipe »

LMAO training to be an architect on BL? People can't build stuff with legos. They'll have to go through the process of learning about what constitutes 'spam,' how to use events, sprays, etc. Even then how are you going to structure your lessons?

'build a pretty hose plz'
'no, use a baseplate'
'basepla- I give up'

(You're also wasting your parent's money with this stuff when you could be playing BL at home, btw lol)

Oh yes, Badspot didn't create perfectly realistic physics because he was hoping nobody would notice. All he has to do is flick his wand and its fixed for schoolz. Lulz lol1@#!.
omg u r a gienyes

No.

3D modellers would be used for this since that is a valuable thing to learn for the industry. Why the hell would you use a kiddy lego game as a serious or budding architect? You wouldn't.

I dunno about architecture, but if you ever take a secondary school design course (furniture and basic spatial design) you'll quickly learn why something like Blockland would be inappropriate.

Events may be good for increasing logical thinking and perhaps a kiddies introduction to understanding programming, but ultimately, its entirely useless outside of Blockland.

There is absolutely no room for Blockland in education.
This man speaks the truth.

Honestly, using Blockland for education is a very bad idea. Everything that would have some educational value could be taught much easier with other tools.
- Eventing as a programming substitute? Learn a real language instead. Eventing is useless.
- Using bricks to teach architecture? Use real Lego's instead. Then you'll get the physics aspect as well.

how i saw it is by using Blockland as a C.A.D tool (computer aided design) and the eventing to prove how it would work e.i light sequences

While TorqueScript is a horrible language for serious development, Blockland seems like it would be a very good way to introduce people to programming whom know nothing beforehand.

.. as long as you can forget everything about TorqueScript when you're finished

.. as long as you can forget everything about TorqueScript when you're finished
bad habits, bad bad habits

I tried recommending Blockland to my drafting teacher for educational use, since it related to architecture. She has this IT guy who reviews the games we suggest to make sure they are okay for use, and after months of waiting and waiting, I found out from her that the game got rejected by the entire school board or something and is banned in my school. Probably just because it has tanks and rockets and guns in it.

Our school's internet is censored really dumb-ishly, minecraft.net is totally blocked, yet the most frequently visited game sites by my class like adult swim games aren't.
Oh but I can access the forums here still there
« Last Edit: December 24, 2012, 10:19:11 AM by Planr »

I was in tech class and I showed my teacher some of the stuff I made,

showing My "experience" with software designing, haha.

While TorqueScript is a horrible language for serious development, Blockland seems like it would be a very good way to introduce people to programming whom know nothing beforehand.

.. as long as you can forget everything about TorqueScript when you're finished
It's really that bad? What is a good game engine that had a good language with it? If you know any, one that is free.

Minecraft's redstone simulates wires, and on a large scale it can be used to replicate things such as computers while making them work the way they would work in real life. Blockland's eventing is basically proxy coding, using events to do what you want while never actually using code. Roblox could be used to teach code, but it's stuff, so classes are better off just going ahead and teaching kids how to code things.

Blockland could be used to teach problem solving and logic skills, as well as help autistic, handicapped, and other mentally disabled children. The issue is that blockland is slightly less accessible than minecraft, and it's a hell of a lot less stable. Blockland runs at a higher FPS on my computer than minecraft, but i can be sure minecraft is going to boot up and let me join a server, while chances are blockland won't authenticate with the master server until the third try, then there's all the sqlite errors and stuff that can forget you over while you're  trying to join a server, which although the general solution is "set all your files to read & write" is still prevalent as that solution hasn't worked very well, at least not for me. Maybe my computer is a bitch, but let's remember, schools have desktops with lower specs than my laptop.