We had a great presentation about Minecraft today by a teacher and five Grade 8 students from Colquitz Middle School. They talked about how Minecraft allows people to develop their communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and critical thinking. The teacher talked about how it can also help students to develop their leadership skills, and gave an example, where students would ask her for help and she would give them the recipe on how to do it, and one of herstudents would tell them the materials they needed but would let them figure the rest out. She also talked about how students who were really quiet in some classes would really shine in the computer lab working on games like Minecraft, where their voices really came out. I thought this was a great example of how everyone has different passions and interests and shine in different ways.