Minecraft: Education Edition is Bringing the Game and Huge Amounts of Learning Resources to The Classroom

Minecraft on Xbox. Minecraft in your hair. Minecraft in schools. It''s everywhere, and that is the aim of Minecraft Education Edition, a version of the world''s most popular game designed for use in classrooms. It''s for teaching kids and adults alike about anything from ancient history by meticulously re-creating locations and buildings, as well as programming using Redstone.

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It''s an expansion and purchaseout by Microsoft of MinecraftEdu that has been in existence since. They''ve even made an instructional trailer that explains the ways that it can benefit:

It''s a great initiative. I would have slain millions of dollars to have something close to as engaging or videogame-like as Minecraft utilized as a learning tool in schools at any age. It would be fantastic to have the PCGN style manual and policies could be taught using blocks rather than horrible words. As always, the most important thing is to inspire people to learn so that they will enjoy learning and absorb it.

The FAQ has more details about the price. It''s currently $5 per year per user, which doesn''t sound like that much when you consider the number of schools, especially American ones and how extensive the possibilities of this program could be. I''d be surprised if Microsoft to offer it for free, but since the fact that these students are bound to be hooked after having spent some time with it in class, it''s not as if there''s no benefits.
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It''s not just schools who will have access, with libraries and museums being able to purchase copies of the material to use what they want to. There are plenty of custom-designed materials available now and more are in the pipeline in the event that they succeed. The two billion dollars are looking quite well spent If things continue along this direction.