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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minecraft, which innocently started out as a vast open-world block-based game, is probably the closest thing to crack cocaine for kids. Its popularity with the grade school set is likely what helped ...

The landscape of game modding has shifted dramatically in 2026, with AI tools moving beyond simple code snippets to become full-fledged development partners. Microsoft Copilot has integrated deeply ...

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.

Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to turn one of the world’s most popular video games into a premiere educational tool for schools and parents. This morning Mojang, the video game developer ...

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 ...