Today Minecraft was unleashed on our Ed Tech class. We were fortunate to have some middle school students join us as our experts for the experience! I found that this was crucial, both because we needed the guidance into this virtual world, but also because these students were able to genuinely demonstrate some of their takeaways from using this in their classroom.

I am interested in the educational resources catered to different core subjects in school, and am particularly interested in how Minecraft can be used to introduce coding and computer science with our students. It appears that Minecraft has some coding options that are similar in fashion to that of Scratch, where the framework has already been developed and students can code by dragging and dropping code blocks.


Minecraft also offers a program called the “Minecraft Hour of Code” which seems similar to a virtual escape room where you can search for treasure by solving virtual puzzles with code. SO FUN!


Both of these images are screenshots from education.minecraft.net .