Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education is a special version of the popular sandbox game Minecraft that is optimized for school and education environments, with built-in tools that enable teachers and educators to promote collaboration, problem-solving, and creating directly inside this engaging video game that is today played by hundreds of millions of kids from all around the world.

With the advent of the 2020 worldwide pandemic and the rise of homeschooling efforts, this version of Minecraft has become even more important than ever before.

Teachers and educators who decide to infuse Minecraft Education Edition into their daily sessions with their kids and students can quickly find out how much this tool has evolved over the years. It now features built-in services for managing classroom projects, tools for documentation work, community forums, lesson plans, an extensive My Classroom feature, and many other tools for fostering an efficient digital environment for managing classes and a safe environment for students to learn and have fun.

While there are many other web-based solutions for managing online learning, they all look a bit bland when compared to Minecraft Education Edition which can offer kids and students a truly engaging 3D environment where they can learn while having fun and direct communication with their peers. The app promotes engagement, fun, immersive and innovative problem-solving, and endless creativity.

While educators can set up lesson plans, video tours, and comprehensive FAQs, the students just need to stick to their schedule and appear on time in online sessions. Tools present in this game can be used to teach many types of school subjects, such as mathematics, basic engineering and architecture, virtual tourism and history education, languages, geography, biology, biodiversity, and even coding!

To organize all this, educators can access a fully featured downloadable starter kit where they can learn about all the features present in this app and start working on their lesson plans. They can even engage with other educators from all around the world, getting tips and recommendations on best practices for learning inside the game environment.

All in all, Minecraft Education is a fully-featured educational platform that hides many new features behind the surface and shows a fun game to all participating students. While students may feel that gameplay inside the blocky 3D world is heavily controlled by the teacher, even to the point that it may limit their creativity, this app is a truly great tool for remote educators who can take full control over their curriculum and provide an engaging environment for learning. The app is optimized for all modern versions of Windows OS.

Note: The free trial is fully functional but limited by the number of logins (25 for teachers and 10 for students) before a paid license will be required to continue playing.