20% Project March 21

I have gotten the chance to talk to a couple people who I believe would really benefit from learning information from my project. The first person who I’ve spoken to is my old chorus teacher’s wife who is a communication teacher for children. I’ve gotten the opportunity to shadow her when she works with children. She didn’t use too much technology is her daily work with children (just computers sometimes) so maybe if I told her about my project, she’d be interested. After shadowing her, I realized just how much MinecraftEdu could really benefit young students. Kids are really easily distracted and I feel like a game like Minecraft, which is extremely addictive from what I know from personal experience, would catch their attention and hold it while teaching them tons of information. My experience shadowing her helped me get a chance to interact with kids while trying to teach them something; which I realized is a lot harder than it sounds. She helped me learn how to keep their attention and I think that I could help her with my knowledge on MinecraftEdu. The second person I talked to is a speech language pathologist. She works with children on a day to day basis and tells me that they use all sorts of games and mediums of technology to teach their kids. I think that many modern day SLPs would suggest something like games or ipad apps or something that to teach the kids and also keep them entertained.