It allows students to download the game at home without having to pay for their own version of the game, and take photos within the game and share them with other students. The basics of the game are the same, but the education version adds extra features. Why Minecraft in Education?īack in 2016, Microsoft released a version of Minecraft specifically for educators called Minecraft: Education Edition or Minecraft EDU for short. This is where your imagination comes in, crafting anything from a small mud hut to a giant concrete city landscape. It is also termed as a first-person ‘sandbox game’ which means people create their own experience, although, in layman’s terms, it is just a virtual landscape where people dig holes to collect blocks and make something out of it. Minecraft is an independent computer game designed in 2009 by self-taught Swedish programmer Markus Persson. In this article, we talk about Minecraft and how teachers have brought it into use to teach their students. In such a scenario, video games came into light as it eases the mood and in the real-time help students learn from it.Ĭurrently, as most students face school closures, Minecraft has become one of the most preferred games to aid learning as it is giving away a suite of educational lessons in its game just as it extended free access to its Education Edition for teachers. Many scholars state that due to this continuation of pandemic many individuals have suffered from the anxiety of coronavirus and experienced social isolation, their psychological well-being started to be a matter of concern. But, a new study from Valerie Shute and her colleagues aims to counteract these concerns with an interesting new finding about the benefits of playing video games. On the other side, the popular conception of video games runs against the idea that playing on a computer can aid learning. A group of researchers has demonstrated that video games can improve a number of competencies.
However, there have been on-going debates on whether children benefit from playing video games.
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