10 | Engaging Your Students Like Microsoft Did With Minecraft w/ Deirdre Quarnstrom, VP of Education Experiences at Microsoft
Update: 2021-10-27
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Do you wish students were more engaged with classroom learning? You should take a page out of what Microsoft did with Minecraft!
Deirdre Quarnstrom, VP of Educational Experiences at Microsoft, brought the video game Minecraft to mainstream education which now reaches millions of students and educators around the world. Deirdre joins us to talk about:
- How developing a game taught her to reach kids in their own learning language
- The value of project-based learning she discovered through Minecraft
- How the UN Habitat-Block by Block Foundation builds our kids as good citizens
Deirdre has dealt a major hand in education by getting kids excited about learning again - let her show you how!
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