La Junta Colorado students utilize Immersive Education

La Junta high school and college students are using the virtual reality platform called Minecraft in order to recreate Bent's old fort.  To students it might seem like a game at first where they must construct a fort.  While working together in teams to build the fort the students are given an opportunity to lean about the historical significance of Bent's old fort.

One of the end goals of the program is to have the students graduate to software that is more engineering based; Auto CAD being one of the programs.  Once the virtual fort is completed it will give the ability to people from all over the world to access the fort to learn more about it's history.  Programs like this could potentially help develop more engineers and architects.  

Link to the video: La Junta Students rebuild Bent's old fort using virtual reality

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc