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 ...

The popular video game Minecraft has made its way into Juneau high school classrooms. A graduate education course at the University of Alaska Southeast showed teachers how to implement the game in ...

Mojang today launched "Minecraft: Education Edition" for macOS and Windows platforms, allowing educators and administrators to begin introducing the game to students and use its copious tools and ...

It's not as daunting as you might think to start using Minecraft in the classroom--here are some ideas to help you get started By now, pretty much everyone knows what Minecraft is. If you’re just ...

Imagine your teacher plunks you down in front of a computer and loads up Minecraft. Awesome, right? Well, you may be living the dream sooner than you think. This summer, Microsoft is releasing ...

The Common Core standards have generated lots of attention and controversy, but what do they look like in a classroom? The NPR Ed team continues its summer series from a fifth-grade math lesson. From ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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 ...