Benefit 4: Minecraft can promote social learning Social and observational learning is widely recognized as a powerful approach to education, and this approach can be applied when using Minecraft in ...

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 ...

Dig, dig, dig. Break and build. Such are the simple, hallmark mechanics behind one of the world’s most popular indie games, Minecraft, which has sold an estimated 20 million copies across different ...

Some NYC Public School students are designing their own visions for the city inside a popular video game. At Thomas Edison ...

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 ...

Randy Fujimoto has a mission statement on his website: “A quest to transform education through game-based learning.” That’s a big idea, to be sure, but we think he might have a chance to succeed, ...

Minecraft hit the PC gaming scene as an alpha release on May 17, 2009. Something about the open world, the crafting system, and the various modes of gameplay made it an instant hit. Since then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Video games in the classroom may sound like a gamer’s dream come true but for La Cañada High School freshman Devyn Oh, a devotee of the computer game Minecraft, the concept is an idea worth exploring.

RIT’s Class of 2020 is getting a bonus opportunity after last week’s virtual conferral of degrees — a ceremony in the video game Minecraft that will allow them to virtually walk across the graduation ...