Minecraft is a one-of-a-kind video game. However, did you realize it may also be a fantastic educational tool? Children can develop all of their soft skills and talents with the help of Minecraft, from academic to social.
In this blog, we will cover all about the Minecraft education edition and how it could influence your kid’s life, and what skills he/she could gain from this game in the future life.
Minecraft Education Edition is a game-based learning platform that prepares students for the future, building future-ready skills to promote creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, and systems thinking in an immersive digital environment. More than 115 nations have educators using Minecraft Education Edition in all subject areas!
Now we will talk about 13 reasons why Minecraft is educational for kids:
- Fun:
Minecraft is an extremely entertaining and fun game to play, which is the main factor in how educational it is for youngsters. As you may know, the best way to learn a lesson is to have fun while doing it, which is why Minecraft makes learning from this game a tonne of fun for players of all ages! Moreover, it not only provides an engaging learning experience but also opens up a world of creativity for kids. Additionally, there are various free games for kids within the Minecraft platform, offering even more opportunities for enjoyable and educational playtime.
- Survival Skills:
The game is built on a survival story where you have to survive in a world full of monsters, you have to craft stuff make your own food, and your own home and you have to build specific realms to go from one world to another in order to win the game.
- Problem-solving:
The most important thing your children can learn from playing Minecraft games is this. This is especially true of the educational edition of the game, which requires them to use logical thinking and coding techniques to solve puzzles and complete levels. Engaging with puzzles for kids not only sharpens their problem-solving abilities but also fosters a sense of achievement as they conquer challenges within the game. Moreover, Minecraft provides a unique platform for developing leadership skills for kids, as they often collaborate with others in virtual worlds, delegate tasks, and work towards common goals.
- Chemistry:
In the Minecraft education edition, you can collect stuff and create some chemical compounds like glue, salt, lye, and many more compounds, and you can collect elements found on the periodic table and combine them to make some unique items like balloons and glow sticks, etc…
- Science:
Minecraft is really educated in science as you can find many related topics for science in the game like animals with behaviors, plants, and trees, you can feed the animals, and they will become more by giving birth to a new animal like a cow or a sheep, even fox’s, wolves, birds, pandas even the underwater creatures like fishes and dolphins, etc. This not only introduces kids to the wonders of the natural world but also serves as a source of inspiration for science projects for kids, encouraging them to explore and understand different aspects of biology and ecology.
- Coding:
In the educational version of Minecraft, your child may learn the fundamentals of coding in a fun and helpful way. He or she can program the agent robot, a brand-new character that was only added to the educational edition of the game. This agent must be programmed by the player to perform specific tasks, and the user can choose between two kids coding languages. For learners who have some coding experience, there’s the option to use the Python programming language.
The coding in the game:
- Farming:
Minecraft is educational in farming too! As the learner can plant and grow trees and other plants to make food for the player and the animals too! The learner can plant seeds to make wheat, watermelons, pumpkin, carrots, potatoes, and many types of trees like oak, dark oak, jungle trees, and many more types of trees. Each tree has unique characteristics, including its own wood’s form and color. Therefore, the learner must ensure that he creates a decent spot for them where the sun can see them and there is water nearby at least 4 blocks away from the block where he is planting in order to build his farm and plant some items like seeds or watermelons or any other form of plants.
Here the pumpkins are planted beside the water to make them grow faster.
- Creativity:
Minecraft is famous for creativity! Where you have to be creative in order to build your dream mansion or house, the learner should be creative as not all the objects are available in Minecraft, such as chairs, TV stands, or even TVs at all! Here the creativity comes inside the learner to create these objects using existing elements in the game. For instance, adding light behind the walls and placing a poster on it can transform a setup to resemble a smart TV. This not only encourages imaginative construction but also fosters critical thinking skills for kids.
- Architecture:
Minecraft is educated in architecture too, as 40% of the players and users play this game in order to build what they want in the way they want! The learner will be able to create and build his really own house with 200+ blocks provided in the game in order to make his work done! So if the learner has the architecture soul inside you will see this soul coming out when they start building amazing houses and amazing designs in the game, where
the learner will really be able to build anything even mechanism basic machines using Redstone’s.
- Cooking
Although the title seems humorous, it is accurate. By converting wheat into bread and developing simple food preparation techniques like soups and cakes, Minecraft can teach you how to cook! And it teaches the student that they must cook the chicken in the furnace before eating it or they risk becoming poisoned. As a result, Minecraft may be useful in the learner’s life even when it comes to learning how to prepare food.
- Crafting:
Crafting is another area where Minecraft is well-known. The learner will learn the basic crafting in the game and they will be able to gain so much knowledge about crafting and changing some materials into other materials when they cut a tree they can change the woods taken from the tree into planks and this planks will be changed into sticks or tools like axes. 90% of the game items are able to be crafted and turned into something else that could be useful to the player in order to complete his missions inside the game. The student will be able to discover a great deal about the blocks and what they may be or might become. The player will have such an amazing experience and adventure while they are learning, making it really interesting for them to discover more and understand more about the land. This will help the learners to understand many things around them, like how the wooden stuff is made how the books and papers were made, and from what, and of course, it’s not just about turning wood into something else the same have 200+ blocks without counting the items armors and tools.
- Trading
Minecraft can even be educational for the kids in trading, the learner can create some tools and stuff and then go to sell them in a nearby village for the villagers he will be able to trade stuff buy and sell in the Minecraft currency (emeralds) and it is really rare to be found in the game so the learners can just sell stuff to the villagers after they see what the villagers are really interested in this will make the villager trade with the learner to buy and sell stuff. So it is even will be more interesting for the learner to make his own life by creating stuff that he loves the most and selling them to the villagers in order to get rare items like emeralds.
By going to the village and interacting with any villager you will see a list like this to trade stuff and emeralds.
- Communications:
And now for the last reason why Minecraft is educational, it is about the communication skills that the learner or player can gain from it. The learner will be able to learn communication, as this game is not for offline access only! Players can go and join huge servers where they can find new friends, meet new learners, and engage with other players in the game itself! This social aspect enables them to talk, make new friendly relations, which will not only enhance their in-game experience but also make them better in communication with others. These interactions act as learning games for kids, fostering essential social and communication skills that contribute to their personal growth and help them build a stronger and more well-rounded personality.
Conclusion
It is always better to learn with friends and family and it will be way better if you learn with them in a fun educational game!
Parents are strongly encouraged to have their children play Minecraft, especially the educational version, as it will provide them with a terrific experience in studying and learning around them in the hilariously popular game, as well as force them to master all the subjects we listed above. If you’re serious about preparing your children to lead in the future, this game is now being taught in Sweden’s schools in Stockholm.
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