"Minecraft's" educational content, which includes a look at the International Space Station, remains free through the end of June. (Mojang / Microsoft) With schools closed and many a parent thrust ...

This NAIDOC week (8–15 November 2020) over 1000 students across 31 schools participated in Australia’s first NAIDOC Minecraft Education Challenge exploring the question: “How might we build ...

Following months of testing and free trials for early adopters, Microsoft announced this morning that its learning-focused version of the popular Minecraft game, Minecraft: Education Edition, is now ...

To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Xbox revealed a new learning experience designed to help teach children about personal data and how they can make better, more informed decisions online. In order to ...

Mojang’s free-form game of building, survival, and exploration isn’t just one of the most popular games of all time — it has also been used extensively in classrooms around the world for the past few ...

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 ...

A video game like Minecraft in schools might trouble some parents. As a Canada research chair in technologies and education, my hope is both parents and educators take the time to learn about how ...

A different way to learn about bees, space stations, and human eyeballs A different way to learn about bees, space stations, and human eyeballs is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual ...

Minecraft has outgrown its humble beginnings in 2011 and has since become the top sold video game of all time. This massive growth has brought a huge player base that is dedicated to bettering the ...

Three days a week, you can find children at Huntington Memorial Library in Oneonta playing Minecraft as part of the library's efforts to develop so-called STEAM programming. Educational focus on STEM ...

A video game like Minecraft in schools might trouble some parents. As a Canada research chair in technologies and education, my hope is both parents and educators take the time to learn about how ...