Minecraft Education

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Minecraft Education Edition celebrated its 10th birthday.

So a bunch of different news out of Minecraft Live.

Praise be to Mojang hard carrying the Xbox division at Microsoft.

She leads Microsoft's AI-enhanced learning product portfolio and strategy.

She started her work in education bringing Minecraft education to students and educators around the world.

We're definitely going to talk about that in depth today.

And she also serves as a director on the board of the Block by Block Foundation and is a founding partner and advisor at Reaction, a social impact VC fund.

When we're building for schools for students of all ages, we look at age appropriateness of the content.

And so that varies from a nine-year-old in elementary school through college student who's getting ready to enter the workforce.

So We take advantage of tools like Minecraft Education to introduce AI literacy, to introduce students to some of the OG AI of machine learning and say, hey, you can actually program this.

You can program in this Minecraft Hour of AI and learn about basic principles there.

And there is an education program where teachers can download modules and teach kids how to code or the logic of coding.

through kind of like a WYSIWYG kind of like dragging icons and connecting different things it's sort of like a map for a satisfactory build or any kind of factory game where you've got to like build certain things and they flow into other things and I could easily see Minecraft coming up with something like that specifically with Minecraft Education that says like hey we're going to show you how to craft your own data pack or your own add-on And we're going to do it in a way that will teach you how to code, but you don't need to know a coding language right away.

So I could see it kind of going either way.

I could see an AI tool.

We also got information that a dedicated version of Minecraft is coming to the Nintendo Switch too.

And Minecraft Education is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

Realm News loves knowledge, so give a great round of applause for Minecraft Education.

Hoorah, Minecraft, for the 10th anniversary.

But then we moved into one of the biggest pieces of the show, Minecraft Dungeons 2.

The school controls it from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and gives us the Jamf app for after-school hours.

Can you recommend software to better control the apps on it? Minecraft Education Edition is on the iPad and is hard to lock down with the Jamf app.

I am after a better app to control her iPad.

Yeah, isn't that, I mean, these schools, man, they need to stop doing that.

But because, you know, they wanted to grow computer science, they approved boxed curriculum and including, you know, approving the university, uh, courses that have been developed for AP Computer Science, um, and, um, the code.org course, the College Board began approving boxed curriculums from tech companies like Microsoft and Apple.

So there's an Apple AP Computer Science course that teaches kids to program in Swift, which is Apple's programming language, and another one from Microsoft, which is like learn to code using Microsoft's Minecraft for Education.

And what's striking about this is, um, you know, like you can imagine that parents would not want, say, Pfizer AP Biology, right? Or Northrop Grumman AP Physics, right? Or ExxonMobil Environmental Science AP.

So it's striking that like the College Board approved the Apple course and Microsoft courses for AP, something it does in no other subject.

Well...

What if it's educational? You can get Minecraft Education Edition.

It's a great argument, Albie.

What do you have to say about that, Dad?