Mining The CliFi World

This chapter describes the bold Minecraft project is performed in 2012, when it was new and progressive to make use of Minecraft for academic functions. Nomad employs standard information-technology methods, including pupil interviews, instructor interviews, classroom remark and collection of work samples and artefacts; the most important of those have been the Minecraft server and pupil-produced Wikis. What has been particularly fascinating concerning the means of researching the Aurora56z project is 'mining' the massive volume of information collected through the preservation of the Minecraft server as well as the scholar Wikis which recorded the pondering and negotiations by way of the construction of the brand new world, Aurora56z. MINECRAFT has beforehand composed and carried out music to accompany readings of sections from The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a dystopian Cli-Fi novel that explores the connection between a father and son within the panorama of a dystopic future. This Cli-Fi framing of the curriculum was also shared and formed by all of the teachers within the challenge.