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 ...

Harpool Middle School kids aren't just playing -- they're learning to code using the popular Minecraft game in an after-school code club in Denton ISD. There’s a new after-school club in the Denton ...

You can tell that Cesar Tron-Lozai is comfortable with kids. He starts off a Java training session for scores of Minecraft enthusiasts—which, given the virtual world’s player demographic, tends to be ...

Stanley Strum is spending his time in class today building a TARDIS, the time machine from the TV show "Doctor Who." "The machine pretends to be a telephone box, but actually it's an infinite, ...

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 ...

Microsoft and coding education startup Code.org are betting on kids' familiarity with Minecraft to help make computer programming more approachable. The two companies have collaborated on a coding ...

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 ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...