Youth engagement agency using #Minecraft within education, planning, and the community. Office at Brighton Youth Centre & work across the UK.
Brighton
Joined June 2014
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BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
In a world overflowing with information, how do students know what to trust? 🤔
Build students’ #InformationLiteracy skills with InvestiGators, a thrilling journalistic adventure from #MinecraftEdu and @DemocracyFwd. 🐊
Learn more at aka.ms/investigatorsblog
#GlobalMILWeek
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
🌐Next week is @UNESCO Global Media and Information Week! Are you excited, because we’re excited?! 🎉🎉
Excited to launch InvestiGators, a new learning experience for #MinecraftEdu that teaches #informationliteracy and #criticalthinking, coming next week.
#GlobalMILWeek
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Our Rivercraft games land an Innovation Excellence award! 🎉
Developed alongside @Microsoft and @BlockBuildersUK, the games teach kids about flood risk reduction, climate change and biodiversity.
Read more: gov.uk/government/news/celeb…
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Our #Rivercraft2 games have won the Geography in Government Excellence in Innovation Award! 🏆
Working with @Microsoft, @BlockBuildersUK and the Geography Association, we developed Rivercraft 2 to teach kids about flood risk.
Learn more at gov.uk/government/news/river…
ALT Photo of group of 4 people stood smiling, holding framed paper as acceptance of an award
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
The winner in the Excellence in Innovation category is ‘Rivercraft 2’ by FCRM Flood Digital at the Environment Agency #GiG2023
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers with #Rivercraft 2 🌍
We’ve developed 3 new #MinecraftEducation games to teach children about #flood risk, climate change and biodiversity, with @Microsoft and @BlockBuildersUK 💻
Find out more: gov.uk/government/news/river…
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Think you could do better?
Reimagine your own version of Corfe Castle by jumping into our Minecraft server ➡ Corfe.RuinsReimagined.com
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Recipients of our #IngeniousAwards @Sustrans and @BlockBuildersUK will upskill 15-20 highway engineers from three London boroughs in designing collaboratively for diversity and using Minecraft for engagement. Find out more: raeng.org.uk/news/news-relea…
ALT The Minecraft Street Buliders. Encourage highway engineers to engage with the diverse communities they design for and to raise awareness among young people about highway engineering.
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
In geography today we used Rivercraft on #MinecraftEdu to learn about how flood defences are used to mitigate flooding. Luckily our walls worked! @DanesfieldSchl @MSEducationUK @BlockBuildersUK @xboxuk @PlayCraftLearn 🌊💻
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Rivercraft is a new Minecraft world inspiring #children to tackle #flooding and #climatechange by using a virtual-world-generating video game showing the destructive impact flooding could have on Preston in England @Minecraft @EnvAgency @BlockBuildersUK
👉 bit.ly/3k2YzQT
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Rivercraft is a new #MinecraftEdu world about flood defenses in Preston and South Ribble created with @EnvAgencyNW @MSEducationUK @XboxUK @BlockBuildersUK. 🌊 Teach your learners about flood risk management and #climatechange.
Check out the lesson plan:
msft.it/6019wQtg9
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Welcome to Rivercraft 🌊
We've been working with @EnvAgencyNW to re-build the Preston & South Ribble flood scheme in @Minecraft @PlayCraftLearn to help educate students about flood defences.
Learn more: msft.it/6010wQHUr
#Minecraft #EDU #Education
ALT Photography of two students using Minecraft: Education Edition to learn about flood defences with their teacher.
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
We've also made a special '5 Minutes On...' podcast on @BBCSounds about today's story on flooding and Minecraft - have a listen here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
@Minecraft @xboxuk
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bzg7…
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Children across the world can now learn more about reducing the impacts of flooding thanks to new @Minecraft Education game ‘Rivercraft’ 💧
‘Rivercraft’ uses @PlayCraftLearn’s game to inspire the next generation of environmental champions 🌍
Play here: education.minecraft.net/en-u…
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Welcome to Rivercraft 🌊
We've been working with @EnvAgencyNW to re-build the Preston & South Ribble flood scheme in @Minecraft to help educate students about flood defences 💚
See more ➡️ bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainm…
@PlayCraftLearn
ALT An Image of a street built in Minecraft. There are red brick houses on the left, a 2-way street in the middle and then green trees on the right hand side.
ALT An image of a street in Minecraft, similar to the first image but now the street is flooded and there are row boats now in the flooded street.
ALT An image in Minecraft showing an open Forest area with a red brick path through the middle of the grass.
ALT An image in Minecraft showing an open plaza with a water fountain in the middle. There is lots of grass and green trees in the background
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Great extended piece by @MicrosoftUK on today’s launch of #rivercraft with @BlockBuildersUK @PlayCraftLearn 🙏 @JustinEducation for all of your colleagues, & your, support for this & new endeavours with @JimWalker_EA – at Southport, England
PLUS, read about the positive impact Rivercraft is already having on one family in Preston 🌊
➡ news.microsoft.com/en-gb/fea…
ALT An image of 4 students using laptop devices with a teacher stood in between them.
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Some snippets of the v fruitful consultation process w/ Milton Keynes Council for our Wolverton project. Activities incld. a ‘Public Review’, Minecraft-based design workshops & an arts-led programme.
Thanks to @ImaginePlaces @BlockBuildersUK
& storytellers "A Word in Edgeways"
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Thrilled that planning was approved for @WeTweetTOWN's #LoveWolverton in Milton Keynes. Highlights: car free streets, renewable energy microgrid @wolvertonenergy, on site car club & bike hire, cohousing community @StillGreen5, school engagement with @BlockBuildersUK
PLANNING APPROVED for #LoveWolverton by @mkcouncil last night! Huge milestone for all involved. Now onward in partnership with the Council to get it built. @StillGreen5 @futurewolverton
BlockBuilders Youth Engagament retweeted
Sneak peek at the exciting new CancerCare #Minecraft world being created for us by @BlockBuildersUK to help us support the kids who come to us for support in an engaging new way! Thanks to @wethecatalysts for funding the project. Read more on our blog cancercare.org.uk/news/catal…
