Microsoft's latest Hour of Code tutorial is providing educators with resources to teach their students the basics of coding and how to prevent forest fires using Minecraft. The lesson is inspired by ...

For Minecraft lesson ideas, view the above GameDesk-produced video and see Jim Pike’s lesson plans on order of operations and area and perimeter, featuring explainer videos and more, on the website ...

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 ...

If there’s any video game that has successfully made its way into the classroom, it’s Minecraft. There’s a small subset of teachers using all kinds of digital games in interesting ways, but the ...

NEW YORK, March 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is excited to announce new educational content released for Mojang and Microsoft's Minecraft: Education Edition. CEE ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Students at Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu are hooked on learning, and it's because of one teacher's unconventional methods that turned their lessons into a video game.

Suddenly, this relatively simple game with a retro style modeled on old 8-bit games has become highly relevant to everyday education in the United States. Though it was used in schools long before ...

In September, Minecraft: Education Edition launched a new world that focused on the indigenous Māori culture in New Zealand. Earlier in the same year, Microsoft teamed up with WWF to offer an ...

A Swedish school has made headlines, first at home and then abroad, by making super-popular build-em-up video game Minecraft compulsory for students aged 13. Video games don't have to teach reading, ...

One school in Sweden added Minecraft to its curriculum for 13-year-old students in an effort to teach lessons of building in virtual worlds, city planning, environmental awareness, preparing for the ...