Hi Anna Marie,
You have nailed the description on successful learning environments for Minecraft Lessons. Collaboration and self regulation (ownership) are key to the success of these projects. Teachers are facilitators and not the experts. It is great to see that your school has made such an investment in the procurement of good ICT equipment. As you have highlighted however, it is the CPD that is most important in going forward. Many teachers still use IT as a means of presentation and not really as a means of giving the children real immersive learning environments. Minecraft can be used to do this. It would be great to see a few teachers decide on developing a scheme with this and trying to role it out in the coming year. Well done