Liam O’Donnell writes us about a Multi-School Minecraft Project event:

Minecraft! That blocky Lego-style game that seems to be everywhere. Including schools.

Before you panic that teachers are ruining a perfectly awesome game with learning, join three TDSB educators to see how their students lead the way in creating, playing and PvPing on the Multi-School Minecraft server.

Since 2011 and in partnership with the EDGELab at Ryerson, the Multi-School Minecraft Project (40 elementary students, from four inner-city schools, sharing one server) has unleashed much mayhem and created plenty of learning in schools across Toronto.

Liam O’Donnell, Denise Colby and Diana Maliszewski return to the Academy, for another discussion around the successes and challenges of their GamingEdus project, bringing Minecraft into elementary schools in Toronto. This open discussion will look at the promises and perils of Games Based Learning and Gamification in the classroom. Questions, ideas and opinions are all very welcome!

It’s happening a week today at the Academy of the Impossible (currently hosting our Torontron Twinstick). Details here.

Keep tabs on events like this via the Toronto Gaming Calendar. (If you use Google, click here to add TGC to your Calendars.)