The Knowledge Standard
Educators demonstrate a broad knowledge base and an understanding of areas they teach.
“Educators understand curriculum and methodologies of areas they teach. Educators teach curricula from Canadian, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and global perspectives. Educators build upon student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy and mutual respect. Educators cultivate the values, beliefs and knowledge of Canada’s democratic and inclusive society.” Reads the description of Standard 6 from the BCTC PDF.
A major part of Minecraft is the crafting. It is right there in the title! Crafting recipes are how we as players know how to make items and what materials we need for them. There are ways of finding out crafting recipes in game but it flows much more smoothly if you know them. (I used to have to search for them online but there is now a recipe book in the game! Making the knowledge more immediately accessible. So cool!) Some items have multiple ways that you can craft them. Having the same pattern of blocks one row higher or lower or even having the pattern flipped will yield the same result.
[ID Begin: Two screenshots of a Minecraft crafting table menu. Both consist of a three by three grid and have the recipe for an oak staircase, oak planks fill six of the squares with the top left corner being empty on the first and the top right corner being empty on the second. ID End.]
Educators have to understand curriculum through multiple ways of knowing. We have to broaden our knowledge base through different experiences and take initiative to do so. There is help available, we just have to ask and put the effort in to look for it.