Minecraft: More Than a Game
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Why are children hooked on the game Minecraft? Even when they are not playing the game themselves, millions of children enjoy watching other people playing in YouTube videos. Parents worry that their children find the Minecraft universe so rewarding that they are losing interest in the real world, in face-to-face contact, or in non-screen-based play. Rather than having a moral panic about it, should we be harnessing children's enthusiasm and taking Minecraft into schools, as some educationalists propose?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm walking through a wooded landscape of gently rolling hills. On my left is a lake and on my right is a copse of trees on the horizon. a of pigs. It's all very peaceful and pleasant, although the scenery is a little, well, blocky, |
| 0:37.0 | rectangular, because this is not the real world, this is Minecraft world, and if you have a child and a 15 the chances are |
| 0:45.7 | they know it better than planet Earth. Minecraft is a computer game that has our |
| 0:50.6 | children hooked. In a school in Somerset I met some of them playing |
| 0:54.7 | it together in an after-school club. |
| 0:57.0 | There's a very good game it's you can build lots and lots and lots of stuff. |
| 1:03.3 | Do you play it every day? |
| 1:04.8 | Um, no because my mom's gonna let me have electronics at the minute. |
| 1:10.1 | Probably because we play on it too much. |
| 1:12.3 | Do you play a lot of Minecraft? |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | At home? Yeah. I play it on my laptop. |
| 1:17.0 | What do you like about it? |
| 1:18.0 | That you can really do anything. |
| 1:21.0 | What do you have a mom and dad think about it? |
| 1:23.0 | Um, they don't understand it. |
| 1:25.0 | Do they have a pledge? |
| 1:26.0 | Um, no. |
| 1:28.0 | My mom's like all the time, |
| 1:29.0 | Mia, there's a creeper, |
| 1:31.0 | Mia there's a creeper, is it gonna eat you? I'm like, mom it blows up, it doesn't eat. |
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