Students at Sterling Middle School crafted an educational experience for the Specialized Instructional Facilitators – Assistive Technology (SIF-ATs) teaching them all about how they use Minecraft EDU to support their learning. The 45 minute experience started with a brief slide show presentation presented by two students. Then students paired with each facilitator to guide them through navigating the environment, managing inventory, and building structures in a virtual world. Using what they learned, the SIF-ATs joined together to take the image displayed below as a Thank You which was sent to the student educators for helping to make a meaningful contribution to the world!
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Immersive Reader in Minecraft EDU
Minecraft EDU is a tool which provides learners with the ability to build in a sandbox environment. Learners can create anything using a robust library of building blocks. One aspect of Minecraft is creating signs for other participants to read. Participants can press the letter I on the keyboard to launch Immersive Reader which provides text to speech support for someone who might need to listen to the text displayed on the sign. This video provides a detailed description of how to use Immersive Reader in Minecraft. Have fun exploring a more inclusive virtual world using built-in tools like Immersive Reader!

Signs in Minecraft

The text on the sign in Minecraft displayed in Immersive Reader