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Reading and Writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up with ways of doing things, thinking about things, valuing things, and interacting with other people – that is, they are caught up with different sorts of social practices. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_csci.129_ref_003">Gee 2007</xref>, p. 18)
Reading and Writing, for James Gee, is how we engage with any knowledge community; what he calls a semiotic domain (2007). Our level of literacy in a given domain amounts to how well we can read (understand) and write (convey) the knowledge that the domain values. Education is all about teaching the student how to read and write. However, we read and write with much more than just pens and paper. Our literacy covers how we engage and interact within our domain of knowledge.
In the following paper I will explore these ideas of reading and writing within the domain of Minecraft. I will use the educational theory of John Dewey to show how the community of Minecraft creates its own knowledge community, and how its members learn to read and write.</abstract>

Reading and Writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up with ways of doing things, thinking about things, valuing things, and interacting with other people – that is, they are caught up with different sorts of social practices. (Gee 2007, p. 18)
Reading and Writing, for James Gee, is how we engage with any knowledge community; what he calls a semiotic domain (2007). Our level of literacy in a given domain amounts to how well we can read (understand) and write (convey) the knowledge that the domain values. Education is all about teaching the student how to read and write. However, we read and write with much more than just pens and paper. Our literacy covers how we engage and interact within our domain of knowledge.
In the following paper I will explore these ideas of reading and writing within the domain of Minecraft. I will use the educational theory of John Dewey to show how the community of Minecraft creates its own knowledge community, and how its members learn to read and write.

The Mining of Craft: An exploration of <italic>Minecraft</italic> as a Community of Inquiry

Cultural Science

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The Mining of Craft: An exploration of  as a Community of Inquiry

Reading and Writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are...

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The Mining of Craft: An exploration of Minecraft as a Community of Inquiry

Article Category: Research

Published Online: Dec 17, 2019

Page range: 126 - 133

Received: Nov 13, 2019

Accepted: Nov 13, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.129

Keywords
Open Literacy, Education, Video Games, Learning, Dewey

© 2019 Liam Miller, published by De Gruyter

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Binary computing number values.

Numbers Represented	Adder 4 (Value 0 or 8)	Adder 3 (Value 0 or 4)	Adder 2 (value 0 or 2)	Adder 1 (value 0 or 1)
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15	1	1	1	1

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14	1	1	1	0
15	1	1	1	1

The Mining of Craft: An exploration of Minecraft as a Community of Inquiry

Article Category: Research

Published Online: Dec 17, 2019

Page range: 126 - 133

Received: Nov 13, 2019

Accepted: Nov 13, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.129

KeywordsOpen Literacy, Education, Video Games, Learning, Dewey

© 2019 Liam Miller, published by De Gruyter

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Binary computing number values.

Keywords
Open Literacy, Education, Video Games, Learning, Dewey

Numbers Represented	Adder 4 (Value 0 or 8)	Adder 3 (Value 0 or 4)	Adder 2 (value 0 or 2)	Adder 1 (value 0 or 1)
0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	1
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3	0	0	1	1
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11	1	0	1	1
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13	1	1	0	1
14	1	1	1	0
15	1	1	1	1