Is Minecraft beneficial socially for kids?

PikachuSmosher

Okay so basically I'm entering a science competition this year and my idea revolves around developing a new minecraft "game" you might say, to be played by children in school and It is intended to teach moral and social skills and to encourage teamwork and combat bullying, I believe it will work but I need to figure out how to test its effect and have no idea how to do so, so this is why I've come here. If you have any advice please post, thanks.

mad turnip

combat bullying

I think your forgetting the times when everyone decides to gang up on someone else in minecraft

PikachuSmosher

don't worry I'm taking care of that

GarIT

There are at least 1,000 games that are supposed to teach kids morals and be anti bullying etc,every single one of them failed. You'll need to do something new and different if you want it to work.

CreepingDeath

PikachuSmosher wrote: »

I believe it will work but I need to figure out how to test its effect and have no idea how to do so, so this is why I've come here. If you have any advice please post, thanks.

So it's basically a psychology experiment then, probably more advice in the psychology forum on the protocols for running this than the computer forum.

Kids will learn by reward versus punishment.
Maybe they get extra in-game items for cooperating and interacting with new players.
Or they have to solve a problem, but different people have different parts of the solution, so they need to co-operate to solve it.

PikachuSmosher

thanks