Teachers and students from as far away as Kerikeri and Wellington met at Mokoia Intermediate last month to share teaching and learning tips around Minecraft as a learning platform.
Students had the chance to voice their experiences of the game and what they learned from it.
Their experiences showed Minecraft, a digital Lego-type game, could be used in the same way many of the older generations used Lego, Plasticine and ice block sticks when they were at school.
Learners were using it in curriculum areas such as maths to teach scale, position and direction, English to infer from the words what the setting could look like, history and geography through recreating Anzac Cove and finding out about the Romans and values by collaborating with other gamers in a multiplayer world to build a city.
Teachers loved having the opportunity to learn from the young ones.