Education Event Virtual Event
Reflect & Learn from Computing History to Build Future Tech
Empower Your Students to Become Informed Technology Citizens
Empower Your Students to Become Informed Technology Citizens
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Explore the Museum's world in Minecraft: Education Edition to inspire and empower your 6-10 grade students to become informed technology citizens. Navigate a virtual museum exhibit and engage with computing artifacts like a 2000-year-old scientific calculator, the Apollo lunar lander, and a self-driving car. Meet historic figures and computing pioneers as well as a diverse group of tech users, engineers, and young entrepreneurs. And, teleport to learning experiences on concepts in hardware and software, innovation, ethics in tech, and technology in daily life.
Lesson Highlights
• Understand how we arrived at today’s digital world by learning from the past.
• Explore basic hardware and software concepts with hands-on activities.
• Meet a startup team working to develop and market a new technology.
• Engage with a debate on values and issues to consider in designing technology.
• Prototype solutions to real-world problems by designing and building new sustainable technologies for your home, school, or community.
Virtual Event
Hosted by Microsoft