The Community of Madrid has celebrated the final of the I SCHOOL MINECRAFT LIGA, Minemad Competition School. Craftea your legenda pioneer educational initiative based on the popular Minecraft video game, in which more than 2,500 elementary students from 30 schools from nine Madrid municipalities have participated.
The final challenge, which has taken place in the Innovation Center Digitiza Madridhas brought together the 10 teams classified for the last phase of the tournament: Design a virtual headquarters for the technological center of the region based on a local historical monument.
The project, promoted by the Ministry of Digitalization and launched in February, seeks to bring the technology To classrooms like Pedagogical toolat the same time encouraging the knowledge of students’ cultural heritage and the development of skills such as creativity, research and teamwork.
A video game as a bridge between history and technology
Throughout the tournament, the participating teams – formed by second and third cycle of primary education – have had to overcome different missions in Minecraft, including the recreation of emblematic monuments of their municipalities. This experience has allowed them to connect with local history through an innovative and playful approach, which has combined traditional documentation techniques (plans, interviews, sources search) with virtual design and collaborative construction challenges.
The Minister of Digitization, Miguel López-Valverdehas presided over the decisive day and highlighted the importance of this type of projects for “Promote early vocations, arouse digital talent and demonstrate that well -oriented game can become a powerful educational tool”. In addition, it has underlined the ability of students “To combine the use of technology with pedagogical and cultural objectives, demonstrating a remarkable maturity and creativity.”
Final face -to -face and simultaneous connection from schools
The event held today has gathered about 200 finalist students at the Innovation Center, while the rest of the participants have followed the final day live from their schools through videoconference. In this last test, schoolchildren have had to design and build a headquarters to digitize Madrid, reinterpreting the monument that allowed them to reach the final.
The works presented have been valued both by their technical quality and by the process of research and prior documentation. This methodology has allowed children to better understand the architectural and cultural context of their creations, while developing transverse digital competences.
A commitment to the balance between digital and analog
During his speech, López-Valverde has stressed that the Digital transformation into education It should not involve renouncing traditional methods, but integrating them with innovative approaches. “With proposals such as this we seek to balance the analog with the digital, reinforcing essential values such as effort, teamwork and critical thinking”the counselor said.
Nine municipalities together for digital education
The participating centers belong to the municipalities of Alcalá de Henares, Aranjuez, Boadilla del Monte, Colmenar Viejo, Getafe, Madrid Capital, Móstoles, Rivas-Vaciamadrid and San Sebastián de los Reyes. In total, 102 teams have been formed, each of them protected by a teacher in charge of guiding students during the creative and learning process.
This first edition of the Minecraft school league has consolidated a replicable model for future regional educational projects, in which the technologythe culture and the Public Education They converge to prepare the youngest in the competitions of the 21st century.
