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Alan Downes commented,
Hi Andrew, The children and I were trying to load the level in game. The shortcut on the opening page was used (still visible in 1.14.70), as was the library > subject kits > comp sci > hour of cod...
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A newer version of the game has saved this level. It cannot be loaded.
I've just come to start a new lesson with my year 3/4. It's a large school and we're still running 1.14.70, there is a lot of work we need to coordinate an upgrade as all of the classes use it and ...
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Alan Downes commented,
I'm using Mac and all of these tutorials are already in the 'Library' under 'How to play'. The extinction lessons are under Science, Extinction Biodiversity Crisis.
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Alan Downes commented,
That would be great, they do tend to drift off course after they get one coordinate right and try to follow the other !
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Alan Downes commented,
Ah, I hadn't considered the commands aspect, that would be confusing, but in terms of displaying the coordinates, so long as the understanding was that this was just a classroom/education option, t...
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Compass
It would be great if the Compass could be enabled to work like a traditional compass. This could help students when trying to navigate their way around the worlds and teach positive and negative nu...
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Alan Downes commented,
Just a quick note on this, I don't understand why it would be so confusing or difficult to fix, all that would need to happen would be instead of displaying X,Z,Y the system would display Y,X and t...
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Alan Downes commented,
Just want to bump this, we're doing the same thing and teaching North/South followed by East/West, while ignoring the Altitude makes the lessons more confusing than they need to be. Lessons are go...
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Alan Downes commented,
Hi Justin, thanks for your reply. It may be OS specific, I'm on the latest Mac OS on a 2017 iMac. I thought it may have something to do with special character selection (where you press and hold a...
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Alan Downes created a post,
Problems when flying in creative. Fly lock?
When I'm building in creative, in flying mode, and placing blocks in strips quickly, occasionally, I will find I can take my hands off everything, but still be flying in the direction I was going. ...