Brittany Vega's STEM Technology Blog

 Coding : Minecraft Activity

1a: How did it set professional learning goals to explore and apply teaching strategies for integrating CT practices into learning activites in ways that enhance student learning of both the academic discipline and CS Concepts? 

Always start with setting goals. Setting a goal is important for educators by keeping the classroom organized. When CT is integrated into lesspns, studentd become more enaged in thier work. This is mainly becasue technology provides different opportunites to make it more fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching in the same things in a different way and achieveing those goals. 

The coding key term i explored in class was "functions".

A function is simply a "chunk" of code that you can use over and over again, rather than writing it out multiple times. Functions enable programmers to break down or decompose a problem into smaller chunks, each of which performs a particular task.

My minecraft character was able to perform a task with a chunk of code. After spending some time on the game I was able to control the movements and keep the doors open with the character on the pressure plate. The "chunk" code goal is to keep the charcter on the pressure plate with the same code for the other chracter to obtain his map, compass, and gems. 

Here is a video of the code in action! 👈