According to a post on a new Microsoft website, Minecraft: Education Edition is coming soon. This version of the extremely popular and successful game is geared at classrooms to help children learn. It sports features like enhanced coordinates so that students and teachers can navigate the worlds together.
You can read part of the description below:
What is Minecraft: Education Edition?
Minecraft: Education Edition is a version of the popular open world game, Minecraft, specifically designed for classroom use. It contains features that make Minecraft more accessible and effective in a classroom setting including:
Enhanced maps with coordinates for students and teachers to find their way around the Minecraft world together.
Student Portfolio feature, where students can take photos and selfies to show their work and learning.
Enhanced multiplayer, where a classroom of up to 40 students can work together toward a greater world in Minecraft.
Login and personalization, where students have personalized avatars and feel more engaged in the game and teachers can know who each player is.
World import and export, where teachers and students can create and save their worlds in the game.
Will Minecraft: Education Edition offer built-in lesson plans?
To get started, there will be a library of lesson plans available to help educators understand how to apply Minecraft: Education Edition to their specific classroom needs, in addition to an online community of educators at http://education.minecraft.net
This is an interesting approach. I’m glad Microsoft provides tutorials to teachers on how to implement Minecraft into the classroom especially in classes like geography to help students learn more. Imagine taking a tour of Delhi or Tokyo while sitting in a classroom in the United States. Minecraft is definitely the right tool for the job. I call it tool now because it’s much more than just a game. We all know that.
Source: Minecraft: Education Edition
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