Windows 10: Free educational content available in Minecraft Marketplace

Brink · Mar 24, 2020

To help keep young minds sharp and stimulated while kids are now out of school, Minecraft Marketplace has launched favorite lessons from Minecraft: Education Edition in a brand new Education category.

These educational worlds can be played on your own, with your kids, parents or friends. From the comfort of your home, you can tour the International Space Station, discover the wonders of ancient Greece, or explore the inside of a human eye.

Also included: 10 worlds from the Marketplace creator community that explore renewable energy, marine biology, Greek history and more. They include lesson plans like creative writing activities, build challenges and tricky puzzles.

All of these worlds are launching now and are free to download through June 30. Find out more at Minecraft.
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Brink · Mar 24, 2020

Minecraft: Education Edition available now!

Today, we are excited to announce that the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition is now available for purchase in 11 languages and 50 countries around the world.

The full version of Minecraft: Education Edition includes the Classroom Mode companion app, enabling educators to manage world settings, communicate with students, give items and teleport students in the Minecraft world. Classroom Mode offers educators the ability to interact with students and manage settings from a central user interface. We’re also continuing to update Minecraft: Education Edition to include new game features from other editions of Minecraft. In the official version, available now, all the latest updates to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta will be included.

Those new to using Minecraft in the classroom should also check out education.minecraft.net, which includes tutorials, lesson plans, starter worlds, a place for educators to collaborate on using Minecraft in education and the Minecraft Mentors program, which connects educators with others experienced in teaching with Minecraft.

The complete version of Minecraft: Education Edition is now available to purchase for $5 per user, per year, or through a Microsoft education volume licensing discount. Head over to the new education.minecraft.net to sign up for updates and read more over at the Mojang blog!
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Brink · Mar 24, 2020

Minecraft: Education Edition will launch November 1

As the 2016 school year gets underway, we are excited to announce the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition will be available to purchase in the Windows Store on November 1.

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Since June 9, more than 35,000 students and educators around the world have utilized the early access program and provided feedback to help us fine-tune the experience across a diverse set of learning environments.

Minecraft: Education Edition is built based on feedback from the educator community and the features and capabilities they have told us are important to enhancing the learning experience. While we debuted several of these features with early access in June, we’re excited to roll out even more key capabilities on November 1, including:

Classroom Mode: A companion app for Minecraft: Education Edition that enables educators to manage world settings, communicate with students, give items and teleport students in the Minecraft world. It displays a map view of the Minecraft world, a list of all the students in the world, a set of world management settings and a chat window. There is even a Minecraft clock to show time of day in the world. Classroom Mode offers educators the ability to interact with students and manage settings from a central user interface.

New Minecraft game features: We will continue to update Minecraft: Education Edition to include new game features from other editions of Minecraft. All the latest updates to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta will be included, such as leads and horses, additional player skins, pistons and the remainder of Redstone functionality and an updated user interface.

The complete version of Minecraft: Education Edition will be available for purchase on November 1 for $5 per user, per year, or through a district-wide licensing model.

We’re committed to releasing the highest quality product that is reliable and secure to use in classrooms around the world. To learn more about Minecraft: Education Edition, please visit education.minecraft.net, and read more about the full version over at the Minecraft Education Blog!
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Source: Minecraft: Education Edition will launch November 1 | Windows Experience Blog

Brink · Mar 24, 2020

Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition Now Available

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It’s been quite a month for Minecraft: Education Edition. On May 2, we announced Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition, a free one-year subscription to Minecraft: Education Edition with qualifying purchases of Windows 10 computers and tablets, and updates to both in-game features and Classroom Mode for Minecraft. In just two weeks, thousands of you downloaded the Code Builder Beta and are already creating with Tynker, ScratchX, and MakeCode. Please continue to share your creations on Twitter and follow the conversation by following @playcraftlearn.

Today, we are excited to announce the Code Builder Update for Minecraft: Education Edition. This includes general availability of Code Builder along with updates to both in-game features and Classroom Mode. Let’s dig in to the details:

Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition is a brand-new extension that allows educators and students to explore, create, and play in an immersive Minecraft world – all by writing code. Connecting to learn-to-code packages like ScratchX, Tynker, and a new open source platform called Microsoft MakeCode, players start with familiar tools, templates and tutorials. And, Code.org will bring Code Studio to Code Builder later this year to support even more learning opportunities. For assistance with Code Builder, we have published a full set of training materials available on the education.minecraft.net community site.

Today, we are also releasing updates to Minecraft: Education Edition. Command Blocks allow players to attach Minecraft commands to activated blocks within the game. You can create teleport stations, give items, change the weather, and more. To utilize educator-focused features, we introduced Worldbuilder ability with Education Edition. We’ve shortened this command to /wb for ease of use, and added others like /clear to empty your inventory and /position to display coordinates. New blocks like Terracotta allow for amazing design possibilities and villager trading brings even more economics into the game. Find out more about this release at our changelog page.

Classroom Mode for Minecraft has also received updates based on educator feedback. We heard loud and clear that educators are using the toggles available to monitor and support learning but wanted more opportunities to streamline the game experience. As of today, you can install the updated Classroom Mode which includes new controls for weather, destructive items like lava & TNT, mobs, muting chat and immutable world.

Next month, the Minecraft Education team will be at ISTE 2017 in San Antonio, so make sure to sign up for updates at education.minecraft.net and find out more on the Microsoft Education blog. For more information about the one-year subscription for Minecraft: Education Edition with qualifying Windows 10 device purchases, head to our offer page here. If you’re near a Microsoft Store, you can check out our demo station featuring Code Builder as well.

Oh, and one more thing. If you are looking to try your first lesson with Minecraft: Education Edition, we have hundreds available from educators on education.minecraft.net. Here are ten more ideas you can try with your students:

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