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Minecraft Education Edition Brings the Game and Huge Amounts of Resources to The Classroom

Minecraft on Xbox. Minecraft in your hair. Minecraft in schools. It's everywhere, and that is the goal of Minecraft Education Edition an adaptation of the world's most popular game designed for use in classrooms. It's designed to teach children - and older - 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, which has been around since 2011. They've even made an instructional trailer that explains the ways that it can benefit:

It's a brilliant initiative, obviously. I would have killed millions of dollars to have something close to as engaging or videogame-like as Minecraft is used as a learning tool in school, at any age. It would be fantastic to see the PCGN style manuals and policy documents could be taught using blocks rather than horrible words. The key, as always, is to make people enthusiastic about learning so that they are able to enjoy learning and absorb it.

There's a long FAQ that provides some more details, including the amount it will cost. It's sitting at $5 per year for each user it doesn't seem like a lot when you consider the amount of schools, particularly American ones, and how broad the potential applications of this might be. While I wouldn't expect Microsoft to offer it for free since these students will be taking advantage of it in the classroom there will surely be many upsides.

Schools aren't the only ones that will be able to access the resources museums and libraries will be able to buy copies to use what they want to. Premium Content For Premium People There are a lot of custom-designed materials available now, with more coming in the near future if they do well. If things continue on this track, two billion dollars looks like a lot of money.