Ed. note: For more Minecraft lesson ideas, see Jim Pike’s lesson plans on order of operations and area and perimeter, featuring explainer videos and more, on the website Educade. Last year I taught ...
A Spanish teacher gives us the low-down on how the open world game can engage language learners in new ways. Glen Irvin has taught Spanish for the past 13 years at Wabasha-Kellogg High School in ...
Minecraft on Xbox. Minecraft in your hair. Minecraft in schools. It's everywhere, and that last is the goal of Minecraft: Education Edition, a version of the world's most popular videogame designed ...
Microsoft is further expanding on its investment in Minecraft, bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion, by acquiring a learning game called MinecraftEdu for an undisclosed sum. The game, produced by a company ...
Michael Dezuanni receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is affiliated with the Children and Youth Research Centre and the Digital Media Research Centre at QUT. If you know children ...
An assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is using Minecraft to teach her students about the properties of building materials. B. Reeja Jayan is using the ...
Like many 11-year-olds in Texas, Ethan had to build a model of the Alamo as a school project. Often, students make their dioramas out of paper mache or popsicle sticks, but Ethan’s teacher gave him ...
Microsoft teamed up with Digital School and the Association of Friends of Youth Ljubljana Moste-Polje to organise a Minecraft challenge hackathon entitled “Dream Classroom”. Thirty children from ...
6. Use Minecraft to help change your classroom culture into something students love. By far the greatest effect Minecraft has had on my students was a change in the classroom culture and attitudes ...