Expand Minecraft Education's Music Learning Capabilities
Hello Everyone,
I will have to preface this by saying I am not a teacher, howeve rI am posting it on behalf of one as I am more adept at finding my way around Minecraft than he is.
However, given the current implementation of Music within Minecraft is based around simple blocks and setting them to notes, to encourage people to use Minecraft to teach music we think it would be great to see expansion, for example, instead of hitting a block to set it to the correct note we should be able to interact wtih it similar to how we interact with Furnaces and Crafting Tables, ideally there would be options to set the Note, Instrument, Tempo, and other key music theory elements.
This would lower the bar into teaching as then you wouldn't have to learn Redstone in order to play music, isn't that what we're all after? Lowering the bar and getting students more engaged in learning?
I would love to hear any feedback or how we could make this better, I don't think it would be to hard to adhoc in as an education specific block especially given there are interfaces for the chemistry blocks.
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This is great feedback, thank you!
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Thanks!
I know I can't expect progress without other teachers and other community members getting in on the conversation. But if you have any logistical questions reguarding how best to implement this from a music teachers perspectice we have a team here happy to answer all the questions.
Ideally we're hoping that we can lower the bar for entry, specifically it can be hard telling kids to "hit" a block 11 times to get an A, and they won't understand what that means, from our approach we were hoping that if you interacted with a Noteblock you'd get a choice of choosing what note, and instrament it would play, then ideally either add something like a rythm block where we can set delays (whatever the music delay is called) so it's much easier then teaching music theory.
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Can we get some feature parity with other versions of Minecraft in terms of different instruments? I didn't go through all of the blocks (!), but I know M:EE doesn't have maybe half of what BE or Java has. I'd also like to see some sort of reference document for what blocks make which sounds, etc.
I've had students do some noteblock projects, and it's definitely a cool feature. Let's see more support!
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Minecraft Education is based on the Minecraft Bedrock codebase, however we normally run about one full version behind the Bedrock production version. When we start work on our next release, we adopt the latest version of Bedrock possible based on their production cycle and how it fits into ours, taking into account the stability of the release. We do this to ensure the best experience for our users.
Our next release will contain many of the new Bedrock features that are live today!
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