Ed. note: For more Minecraft lesson ideas, see Jim Pike’s lesson plans on order of operations and area and perimeter, featuring explainer videos and more, on the website Educade. Last year I taught ...

Do you dream about books of enchantment? Do you know the difference between sandstone and cobblestone? Does the word "creeper" give you, well, the creeps? If you answered yes to any of the above, you ...

ELON — Jennifer Oakley’s third-grade math class is spending the day playing videogames. The game is Minecraft, and Oakley has turned it into a lesson on area and perimeter with the help of iPads, ...

Minecraft, a video game with lego-like building, is being used in a Regina classroom. (CBC News) A Regina high school teacher is using the international smash hit video game Minecraft to teach his ...

This might be the one time when parents shouldn’t yell at their kids for playing video games when they should be doing homework. For the students of Dean Vendramin at Regina’s O’Neill High School, the ...

However, the real reason I use Minecraft is that the students chose it. The popularity of the game is so overwhelming and when the lesson became the engagement their attention, confidence, and ...