As COVID-19 concerns prompt school closures around the world, many educators are turning to remote learning to keep students engaged. To help teachers and students stay connected to the classroom, ...

The ability to learn socially from one another is a defining feature of the human species. Social learning enables humans to gradually accumulate information across generations. And although we are ...

Minecraft has pretty amazing potential as a teaching tool. In general, it promotes creativity and problem-solving as it boosts engagement. But it also can improve achievement when confident teachers ...

Minecraft on Xbox. Minecraft in your hair. Minecraft in schools. It's everywhere, and that last is the goal of Minecraft: Education Edition, a version of the world's most popular videogame designed ...

The recent box office smash hit Minecraft is based on a very popular video game by the same name. It's known for its block graphics, calming music that set the vibe for players to "mine" for building ...

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A person interacts with a custom-built Minecraft environment used to study adaptive social learning in a virtual foraging experiment. This study, published in Nature Communications, was designed to ...