Since its release in 2011, Minecraft has captured the hearts and minds of today’s youth. With the recent release of MinecraftEDU school version, this popular game is rapidly becoming the most ...

Teenager Alea Frydnlund is creating zombies. “It will attack you if you’re on survival,” she says. “But right now, I’m just on creative.” Alea hunches over a screen in a classroom at the University of ...

Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org. According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow ...

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So this may be what, when Microsoft paid a bazillion dollars for Minecraft last year and everyone said “This could go really, really well or really, really poorly,” would be an example of it going ...