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  • A bit of an update -- I have been able to get unstuck from the border blocks -- it required getting into the creative mode and turning on the coordinates to get a better understanding of where the dividing line is -  I needed to be at 3040,65,1472  to be in the neighborhood of the lights sign that needs fixing. In my experimentation I believe I have lost all of the letter blocks for the puzzle. I am at a lost of where these go if they have been dropped from the inventory? Can they be recovered in some way to allow the student to continue?

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  • Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Hi, and welcome! It's no fun being stuck, sometimes! It sounds like you are in a particular world. Can you link to it? I'm unfamiliar with the world you are in.

    I'm very enthusiastic about grandmothers with grandkids in Minecraft! I have several grands I play with as well! =]

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  • The world was English Adventures  with Cambridge -

    https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/lessons/english-adventures

    We were in the 8-10 year old version of the program.

    We were in the Snow Book -  Page 23 in the walk through guide.

    https://assets.cambridgeenglish.org/minecraft/walkthrough_guide.pdf

    We had collected all of the letters needed for the puzzle, and had tried to place the "W" in the puzzle, and the letters "OFF" were removed, only O and F made it to the inventory, the "W" I placed was not in the puzzle nor was it in the inventory.  There is no way to recover letters once they are removed from the inventory making it impossible to finish the lesson.

    It took more than two hours of playing to get to this point, and with an 8 year old you know we are stretching the time for a children to concentrate on a single task.

    We enjoy playing together as grandma and grand daughter, but the system makes it a bit difficult. I seem to need a educators license, and a valid school email address. This all illogical to me.  I have a regular Office 365 license that I use at home. I have been a Microsoft user forever --- since 1980's - I cant list how many products I have purchased over time and somehow this license could be denied to me because I am not formally connected to a school? I happen to be a grandma being asked to care for a child so the parents can work, I want to make productive use of her time and mine, she is glued to Minecraft, I encountered the coding.org page and said as grandma I know enough about coding I could help get her interested in running code and playing Minecraft. So we started to tinker around one day on the hour of code, and then I saw a language arts for the English Adventures, and decided to try that. She loves Lilac the Fairy who is a smart librarian a great girl character. She brought the lilac doll in the gift shop and wants to carry it with her. Clearly she is taken with the game.

    As for me, it gives us something to talk about instead of her disappearing into the game without a trace. We can discuss characters and adventures together because we were there side by side watching same things happen. It is a shared experience. I have recently used up my 25 trail logins, and fear that I will be locked out once again.  I hope to find out how to get a license and be valid and continue my summer of learning with her, we have gotten through two hours of code using MakeCode - she is not ready for python. She is just entering 3rd grade.

    I'm guilty of enabling/fostering coding, I got her a Bolt for Christmas. It too uses the Code blocks, but I have to expose her to more code before it becomes natural to her. If statements and looping are not natural to a 2/3rd grader.   She can do the single loop at a time, but getting to group of them together is harder. As a new coder she wants to see the immediate result, and because of this she writes one step of the program, and runs it, and then deletes that and runs the next step until she accomplishes the goal. The system is not set up for her to "store" the steps and then string them together to make it happen from end to end.  I know she can and will get there some day.

    This is all probably more than you thought you might get in response, I thank you for your time and interest.

     

     

     

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  • 憲作 片桐

    I'm having the same problem in the same place." The "W" block is broken and I can't find it anywhere and can't complete the puzzle.

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  • Aleece Landis
    Bug Zapper Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Elizabeth Tritthart

    Have you managed to get an education edition license.  It is possible to do as a "homeschool" or club or camp now.  And if you are a bit of a coder, you could probably create lesson worlds of your own to use with your grand daughter.  

    I know I find all the time my son gets to spend with his grandparents precious since we lost two of them this year (no neither of them to covid.)

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