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Minecraft Education

This app is for school and organizational use. minecraft education is a game-based platform that inspires creative, inclusive learning through play. explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge. dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. or explore and build together in creative open worlds. use it your way with hundreds of ready-to-teach lessons, creative challenges, and blank canvas worlds, there are lots of ways to make minecraft education work for your students. it’s easy to get started, no gaming experience necessary. prepare students for the future help learners develop key skills like problem solving, collaboration, digital citizenship, and critical thinking to help students them thrive now and in the future workplace. spark a passion for stem. game-based learning unlock creativity and deep learning with immersive content created with partners including bbc earth, nasa, and the nobel peace center. inspire students to engage in real-world topics with culturally relevant lessons and build challenges. key features  - multiplayer mode enables collaboration in-game across platforms, devices, and hybrid environments - code builder supports block-based coding, javascript, and python with intuitive interface and in-game execution - immersive reader helps players read and translate text  - camera and book & quill items allow documentation and export of in-game-creations - integration with microsoft teams and flipgrid supports assessment and teacher controls minecraft education licenses can be purchased with admin access to a microsoft 365 admin center account. talk to your tech lead for information on academic licensing. terms of use: the terms that apply to this download are the terms that were presented when you purchased your minecraft education subscription. privacy policy: https://aka.ms/privacy, 10/11/2017 11:46:09 pm, gameplay may be limited without purchase of a license. https://education.minecraft.net/eula https://educationstore.microsoft.com/en-us/store/details/product/9nblggh4r2r6.

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Minecraft Education is a game-based platform that inspires creative and inclusive learning through play. Explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge. Dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. Or explore and build together in creative open worlds.

Use it your way : with hundreds of ready-to-teach lessons, creative challenges, and blank canvas worlds, there are lots of ways to make Minecraft Education work for your students. It's easy to get started, no gaming experience necessary.

Prepare students for the future : learners develop key skills like problem solving, collaboration, digital citizenship, and critical thinking to help them thrive now and in the future workplace. Spark a passion for STEM.

Game based learning : unlock creativity and deep learning with immersive content created with partners including BBC Earth, NASA, and the Nobel Peace Center. Inspire students to engage in real-world topics, with culturally relevant lessons and build challenges. 

Minecraft Education key features

• Multiplayer mode enables collaboration in-game across platforms, devices, and hybrid environments 
• Code Builder supports block-based coding, JavaScript, and Python with intuitive interface and in-game execution 
• Immersive Reader helps players read and translate text 
• Camera and Book & Quill items allow documentation and export of in-game creations 
• Integration with Microsoft Teams and Flipgrid supports assessment and teacher controls 

Try or purchase Minecraft Education

Users in a Microsoft-verified academic organization with Microsoft 365 accounts have access to a free trial for Minecraft Education. This grants faculty accounts 25 free logins, and student accounts 10 free logins before a paid license is required to continue playing. Users in non-Microsoft-verified academic organizations have 10 free logins.

Organizations can purchase subscriptions directly in the  Microsoft 365 admin center , via volume licensing agreements, or through partner resellers.

When you sign up for a Minecraft Education trial, or purchase a subscription, Minecraft Education licenses are linked to your Microsoft Entra tenant. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra tenant:

• Microsoft-verified academic organizations can set up a free Office 365 Education subscription , which includes a Microsoft Entra tenant
• Non-Microsoft-verified academic organizations can set up a free Microsoft Entra tenant when they purchase Minecraft Education commercial licenses

Direct purchase

To purchase direct licenses:

• Go to https://education.minecraft.net/licensing
• Under Direct Purchase , select Buy Now
• Sign in to the Admin Center purchase page with an account that has Billing Admin privileges in your organization
• If necessary, fill in any requested organization or payment information
• Select the quantity of licenses you'd like to purchase and select Place Order
• After you've purchased licenses, you'll need to assign Minecraft Education licenses to your users

If you need more licenses for Minecraft Education, see Buy or remove subscription licenses .

Volume licensing

Qualified education institutions can purchase Minecraft Education licenses through their Microsoft channel partner. Schools need to be part of the Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) volume licensing program. Educational institutions should work with their channel partner to determine which Minecraft Education licensing offer is best for their institution. The process looks like this:

• Your channel partner will submit and process your volume license order
• Your licenses will show on Volume Licensing Service Center

Payment options

You can pay for Minecraft Education with a debit or credit card, or with an invoice.

Debit or credit cards

During the purchase, select Add a new payment method . Provide the information needed for your debit or credit card.

Invoices are a supported payment method for Minecraft Education. There are a few requirements:

• $500 invoice minimum for your initial purchase
• $15,000 invoice maximum (for all invoices within your organization)

To pay with an invoice:

• During the purchase, select Add a new payment method.
• Select the Invoice option, and provide the information needed for an invoice. The PO number item allows you to add a tracking number or info that is meaningful to your organization.

For more information about invoices and how to pay by invoice, see Payment options for your Microsoft subscription .

Assign Minecraft Education licenses

You can assign and manage Minecraft Education licenses from the Microsoft 365 admin center. You must be a Global , License , or User admin to assign licenses. For more information, see About Microsoft 365 admin roles .

• Go to https://admin.microsoft.com and sign in with an account that can assign licenses in your organization
• From the left-hand menu in Microsoft Admin Center, select Users
• From the Users list, select the users you want to add or remove for Minecraft Education access

If you add a faculty license, the user will be assigned a teacher role in the application and will have elevated permissions.

If you turn off this setting after students have been using Minecraft Education, they will have up to 30 more days to use Minecraft Education before they don't have access

For more information about license assignment, see Manage Licenses in the Admin Center .

Distribute Minecraft Education

There are different ways to install Minecraft Education on Windows devices. You can manually install the app on each device, or you can use a deployment tool to distribute the app to multiple devices. If you're using Microsoft Intune to manage your devices, follow these steps to deploy Minecraft Education:

• Go to the Microsoft Intune admin center
• Select Apps > Windows > Add
• Under App type , select Microsoft Store app (new) and choose Select
• Select Search the Microsoft Store app (new) and search for Minecraft Education
• Select the app and choose Select
• System means install for all users (recommended for most scenarios)
• User means only install for the targeted user or current user of a device
• Required means that Intune installs the app without user interaction
• Available enables Minecraft Education in the Company Portal, where users can install the app on-demand
• Select Next
• On the Review + Create screen, select Create

Intune will install Minecraft Education at the next device check-in, or will make it available in Company Portal for on-demand installs.

For more information how to deploy Minecraft Education, see:

• Windows installation guide
• Chromebook installation guide
• iOS installation guide
• macOS installation guide

If you're having trouble installing the app, you can get more help on the Minecraft Education support page .

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Minecraft Education Edition guide: Uses, features, requirements, and more

A special version of Minecraft for education.

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To most of the world, there are three different versions of Minecraft . The Java Edition is the original version, and it's available on MacOS and Windows PC's. It's known for being big, heavy, and very powerful. It supports mods , third-party tools and software, and has a huge number of hardcore players. The Bedrock Edition is the modern version, built to span across devices, platforms, and generations with a flexible and lightweight foundation. It supports multiplayer across different platforms, private servers known as Realms, and is available on way more devices. Then there are the "legacy" versions that no longer exist, like the old Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 editions.

There's actually one more version of Minecraft and that's the Education Edition. This version is built off the Bedrock Edition, building in powerful features useful for teachers and educators. This is Minecraft build for schools, libraries, museums, and more. It's not for fun, but it does make learning things like math, science, and programming fun. Here's what you need to know.

Related: Here's how to use the Education Edition for children at home due to the coronavirus

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What is Minecraft: Education Edition?

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Back in 2016, Mojang announced a new project to help educators teach their students by using Minecraft as a fun and interactive tool. A little while later, Minecraft: Education Edition was born to the world, and it featured a ton of unique features and plans across a variety of curriculum subjects like architecture, math, chemistry, agriculture, and computer programming. Across all of it, Minecraft: Education Edition is focused on teaching children important critical skills like problem-solving, teamwork, and creativity.

Because the Education Edition is actually just an expanded version of the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft available on Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10, Android and iOS, it also comes with all the same features present there. However, the Education Edition isn't quite as prolific as its base version, since as of now it's only available on Windows 10, MacOS and iPad devices.

The full Minecraft: Education Edition is specifically tailored to schools, and is currently being used in over 115 countries around the globe. It is a monthly subscription service that requires a Microsoft 365 Education account and a Mojang Account, so access is limited and everyday people won't be able to take advantage unless their school allows it.

There's also a toggle present in the base Bedrock Edition of Minecraft simply labeled "Education Edition" that appears in the Create a New World menu. This toggle is available on more devices like Android phones, and anyone who owns the Bedrock Edition can use it, but isn't as powerful or complicated as the full Education Edition is. More on that toggle down below.

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Minecraft: Education Edition includes a surprising number of additional mechanics, administrative features and controls, tools for students to use, and exclusive items and resources that really drive home the focus of the game. The point of the Education Edition is to not only provide a platform in which students can learn, but also give teachers the tools they need to manage their classroom, keep everyone productive, and set the parameters for their lessons.

We'll divide the features of the Education Edition of Minecraft into three categories: items and resources, student tools, and educator tools.

Items and resources in Minecraft: Education Edition

There are a few exclusive blocks or items in Minecraft: Education Edition that aren't available in the Bedrock Edition. Some of these are tailored for use by educators, but the majority of the exclusive items revolve around the Education Edition's extensive chemistry toolset.

The items and resources in Minecraft: Education Edition are:

• Balloon. The balloon levitates when placed, and can even levitate mobs if attached.
• Underwater TNT. TNT typically doesn't work underwater. This kind does.
• Underwater torches. The thing that everyone wants is in the Education Edition—torches that work even while underwater.

There are also a load of chemistry-focused items and resources, which are:

• 118 elements and hundreds of isotopes. The periodic table exists in Minecraft: Education Edition. There are 118 elements and at least 400 stable isotopes for students to choose from.
• Element constructor. Students can create elements and isotopes here, with sliders to choose the number of electrons, protons, and neutrons their atom will have.
• Compound creator. Allows students to combine different elements into compounds. At the moment, there are over 30 compounds such as coal or soap.
• Lab table. Students can take the elements and compounds they have created to craft items like bleach, which are actually usable in the game.
• Material reducer. Where the aforementioned tables are strictly about construction, the material reducer takes Minecraft blocks and reduces them to their base elements. Since not all Minecraft blocks actually, you know, exist, there's a "?" block to represent fictional elements.

Tools and functions for students in Minecraft: Education Edition

Students can do more than just chemistry in Minecraft: Education Edition, and there are also ways for students to track their progress through lessons and challenges. Most importantly, though, is how easy it is for students to work together in Minecraft: Education Edition.

The items available for students to use are:

• Camera. A tool for students to screenshot their projects and work.
• Portfolio. A tool students can use to document their progress.

The functions and features available for students to use are:

• Classroom collaboration. Up to 30 students can work in a world at a time, without the need to set up or rent a server. Students can also work solo, in pairs, or just join their other classmates in a world. This allows educators to scale lessons as needed.
• Code connection. Allows students and educators to play in a fully functional Minecraft world solely by writing code.
• 3D exporting. One of the coolest features of Minecraft: Education Edition is the ability for students to export their projects to Remix 3D and actually build them in the real world using 3D printers.

Tools and functions for educators in Minecraft: Education Edition

A bunch of children hanging out in Minecraft without educators and teachers being able to moderate them is bound to turn into giggle-filled chaos, so of course there are a ton of tools available to help define boundaries and keep students on task. This also helps educators scale lessons and challenges as needed to fit the classroom or objective.

The items available for educators and teachers to use are:

• Chalkboard. Allows educators to outline lesson plans or instructions in game, with various sizes available.
• Allow/deny blocks. Allows educators to specifiy areas where players (students) can build. Allow blocks mean building is allowed, while deny blocks mean, well, the opposite.
• Border blocks. This allows educators to define set areas in which students can roam.

The functions available for educators and teachers to use are:

• Tutorials. Minecraft: Education Edition is quite complicated, and can be very harrowing to the uninitiated. There are tutorial worlds available to both educators and students that teach how to use their respective functions, and the different things you can do in Minecraft: Education Edition.
• Lessons. A very important aspect of Minecraft: Education Edition are the lessons. There are a huge number of lessons available from Mojang's website that are organized by subject and age group. Teachers can also upload their own lessons for other users to access from the website.
• Challenges. In the same vein as lessons, challenges focus less on teaching about a specific structure and more on collaboration and cooperation. Students must work together to accomplish specific tasks. These can range from puzzles, building projects, cartography and much more. These are also available from Mojang's website.
• Classroom mode. This is a master overview of the entire Minecraft world that allows an educator to see where everyone is at, communicate with players, and edit various settings for the world.
• Additional item hotbar. Teachers can equip their students with an additional item hotbar to give them three more items then they could normally carry. Teachers can also populate that hotbar with whatever items they want. This hotbar is vertical to and to the side of the normal hotbar.
• NPC's. Educators can actually design custom NPC's that can act as guide of af sort for students, and can provide additional information, including links to external references.
• Admin commands. Much like commands in vanilla Minecraft, these new admin commands control certain functions of the world. Educators can give players ability to build even when in deny areas, to leave bordered areas, and a whole lot more.

Something that isn't immediately obvious to anyone, myself included, is how Minecraft: Education Edition is actually a fully separated experience from the Bedrock Edition, and how that "Education Edition" toggle you might've noticed when creating a new world in Minecraft doesn't actually enable the full Education Edtion. The reason behind this is simple: unless you're an educator or a student being taught by an educator with access to Minecraft: Education Edition, it might as well not exist for you.

The toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is completely free, but it doesn't unlock all of the features. Instead, this toggle turns on the chemistry features for the Bedrock Edition. This means the elements, isotopes, compounds, and all the tables associated with them. The tutorial maps, admin controls, exclusive blocks and items, and some of the lesson plans and challenges can only be used if you have access to the full Education Edition.

That's not to say the toggle is useless. If you have a child you want to stay productive at home, or if they're staying home for some reason, the toggle still gives you and your child all the chemistry-focused features. If you're child isn't into chemistry (or like mine, is just too young), you can still combine the Bedrock Edition with the many, many lesson plans and challenges available on Mojang's Education Edition website . They'll just be a little more hands-on then if you had access to those admin controls and features.

So it's clear that Minecraft: Education Edition has been designed from the ground up to be very good at what it does. Their Twitter account is full of stories from students and teachers who have used the game for learning. How do you gain the same benefits from Minecraft: Education Edition? There are two different ways, depending on who are you or where you're coming from. Let's go over both.

If you're an educator or student and want Minecraft: Education Edition

The full Minecraft: Education Edition is strictly education, so it has similar requirements that, say, an enterprise-only service would have. There's not a how-to on getting Minecraft: Education Edition, because it depends a lot on who you are. If you're an educator, talk to your admin about using the game for your classroom. If you're a student, talk to your educator.

The requirements for Minecraft: Eduation Edition are:

• You must have a Microsoft 365 Education Account and a Mojang Account in order to sign in.
• You must have either a Windows 10 PC, a MacOS computer, or an iPad running iOS 9 or later.
• If you are an educator, you must be a full-time employee of an educational institution, and have a work-related email provided by the institution.
• If you are an educational institution, you must be operating in an official capacity as an accredited educational institution with the intention to teach its students.
• If you are a home-schooled program, you must be officially recognized by a national organization or local educational institution.
• If you are a library, you must grant free and public access to library services in your community or region.
• If you are a museum, you must be an institution focused on educational purposes, or have permanent professional staff related to an educational program.
• There is typically a subscription cost per user per year, but this can change depending on the volume of the subscription required by the institution, educator, or organization.

As you can see, these requirements are pretty set in stone, and don't give a lot of leeway for everyday people to gain access. That's why the "Education Edition" toggle exists in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, which is available to everyone.

If you don't have access to the full game but still want some of the benefits

If none of the above requirements describe you, you're probably like me or many other people: an average person with no official educational capacity, but either wants to learn, or has someone else (like a child,) to teach. That's okay, Mojang included a toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition that enables the Education Edition's chemistry features, and they made all the lesson plans and challenges on their website accessible to anyone.

To enable these features for yourself, do the following:

• Create a new world in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. We have a guide that goes over everything you need to know about this.
• When creating your world, set the world type to "Creative." While you can do this in Survival, it doesn't make much sense, as you won't have any of the features you're enabling.

• Scroll down until you see the "Activate Cheats" toggle. Go ahead and flip this on. Minecraft will ask you to confirm, which you'll want to do.
• Right below that will be the "Education Edition" toggle. Go ahead and flip that one on too. This will enable the chemistry focused features for Minecraft.
• Create your world. Once you've loaded in, you can find the chemistry features near the bottom of the Creative inventory screen.

Now you can use all the lesson plans and challenges available on Mojang's website to help you out. Unforunately there will be a learning curve, since you won't have any of the tutorial worlds, and not all the lesson plans or challenges will work (like any of the coding plans). Otherwise, you basically have free reign over whatever you want to do! This is a great tool if you want to be more hands-on with your child's learning, and still try to keep it fun.

A fun way to learn

The Education Edition turns Minecraft from an expansive creative sandbox to an interactive learning environment. Teachers can monitor progress and assign lessons while students can work together as a classroom, in groups, or individually to accomplish goals while learning more about various subjects. While most people probably won't ever come in contact with it, it's awesome that Mojang and Microsoft are working to have a more engaging presence in classrooms.

That's not to say the Education Edition has nothing to offer to normal people. Using the Education Edition toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition gives you access to a whole host of chemistry-focused features, and the lesson plans and activities for Minecraft: Education Edition are free to access for everyone. Using this, it's not hard to make sure your children can have fun and stay productive wherever they are.

Have you used Minecraft: Education Edition before? Do you think this is a good tool to help children learn? Let us know in the comments below!

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In all its levels, programs, and teaching, Logos School seeks to: Teach all subjects as parts of an integrated whole with the Scriptures at the center (II Timothy 3:16-17); Provide a clear model of the biblical Christian life through our staff and board (Matthew 22:37-40); Encourage every student to begin and develop his relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20, Matthew 19:13-15).

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What the West's foes may be learning from the Ukraine war

NATO countries, including the US, are gathering lots of useful intelligence from the Ukraine war.

But Russia's biggest supporters like Iran, China, and North Korea are also learning from the fight.

Among their takeaways is a deeper understanding of Western equipment, a top Russia expert warned.

NATO has been closely watching how the Russian military performs in Ukraine and gathering valuable intelligence on a range of things, from Moscow's battlefield tactics and procedures to some of its more advanced weapons systems.

But NATO is not the only one benefiting from the information coming out of the war. Moscow's supporters — some of which are fierce adversaries of the US — are also learning from the war, deepening their understanding of Western weapons, a top Russia expert warned earlier this month.

During a panel on Russian forces reconstitution on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, the moderator asked Dara Massicot, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to assess which side has learned the most from the conflict.

"From a strategic intelligence level, I think that Ukraine and NATO far and away have the advantage," Massicot commented at the July 10 event alongside Latvia's Foreign Minister Baiba Braže. "That advantage, just like all intelligence work, is not guaranteed," she continued. "You have to fight to maintain it. You have to fight for that access."

She explained that from a tactical perspective, Ukraine and Russia are learning much about each other, and in response, the cycles of adaptation and countermeasures are rapidly compressing. US officials have made similar remarks , especially regarding electronic warfare capabilities on both sides.

But, "just like we, as NATO, are benefiting from what Ukraine is showing us and teaching us, we have to think about the other side as well," Massicot said. "Russia's allies and their partners are learning from them, and this is now a currency that Russia has to give to Iran, China, North Korea — that learning of our equipment."

Help from abroad fuels the fight

Since the start of the war, NATO countries have provided Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in security assistance, with the US alone accounting for more than $53 billion. This collection of military aid includes everything from smaller items like bullets and artillery shells to larger pieces of equipment like armored vehicles and air-defense systems.

But Ukraine is not the only party to the conflict that has received support from abroad.

Iran, China, and North Korea have provided Russia with varying degrees of military and economic assistance throughout the war, and the ever-deepening ties between those countries and Moscow have triggered alarm bells in the US and among its NATO allies.

Iran and North Korea have collectively outfitted Russia with a bunch of lethal aid , including missiles, rockets, artillery shells, and drones. In fact, Tehran's Shahed-136 loitering munition has even emerged as one of the more notorious weapons that Moscow has employed, frequently used in attacks on Ukraine's cities and civil infrastructure.

China's support for Russia as it wages war in Ukraine  has been more discreet . Rather than directly providing lethal aid, Beijing has instead supplied technology and hardware to help Moscow expand its defense-industrial base and make weapons.

The weaponry that the Russians have received from abroad doesn't stack up to any Western-made alternatives and is often of much lower quality. Still, experts note that this support has kept Moscow's arsenal afloat as Ukraine's faced uncertainty and has helped the military maintain its pace on the battlefield.

The relationship between China, Iran, and North Korea and Russia is not a one-way street. Moscow is increasingly supporting Tehran, Pyongyang, and Beijing through defense cooperation and assistance.

Learning from the war

Stronger ties between Russia and countries like Iran, China, and North Korea that often stand in opposition to the West raise the risk that Moscow could share with these external actors unprecedented access to Western weaponry sent to Ukraine. There have been indications this is already happening.

For instance, CNN reported last year that Russia was sending Iran Western-provided weapons that it captured on the battlefield in Ukraine. Tehran could then reverse-engineer the weapons to further its own interests in the Middle East, which would be of great concern to the US and its regional allies that use these weapons.

Russia has said that it has recovered intact European-made Storm Shadow missiles , as well as US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) components. It's also gotten its hands on Western armored vehicles, among other things.

Furthermore, in its war in Ukraine, Russia has learned useful information on ways to defeat the kind of precision-guided munitions the West depends heavily on, defeating a variety of weapons with electronic warfare. Shared externally with Western foes, this knowledge could create new headaches for the West in a potential future fight.

External actors are also able to gather data about how their weapons perform on the battlefield. One example of this came in April when Iran launched a massive air assault against Israel using missiles and drones, including ones used by Russia in Ukraine.

"There's no doubt in my mind that in the same way we're learning about how our weapons work on the modern-day battlefield — because we're giving those to Ukraine — there's no doubt that the Iranians are learning about what works and what doesn't work, about their drones being used in Ukraine as well," Luke Coffey, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, told The Hill in April.

Experts and officials have also said that North Korea is likely learning about how its weapons perform in actual combat conditions. In Ukraine, performance for North Korean weapons has been a bit of a mixed bag, with some systems exploding in flight and others doing unexpected things.

For Iran, experts said the mid-April attack strike package bore a resemblance to some of Russia's attacks in Ukraine. Learning from that experience could pave the way for improvements in performance down the road.

"The strike package was modeled on those the Russians have used repeatedly against Ukraine to great effect," conflict analysts at the Institute for the Study of War think tank wrote after Iran's mid-April attack.

They said that "the Iranians will learn lessons from this strike and work to improve their abilities to penetrate Israeli defenses over time as the Russians have done in repeated strike series against Ukraine."

Read the original article on Business Insider

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