Microsoft Encourages Schools to Use Minecraft as Another Way for Teachers to Teach Their Students

Microsoft is encouraging schools to use Minecraft for educational purposes. For example, a history teacher could, potentially, recreate an ancient civilization from a textbook. Microsoft is encouraging teachers to educate their students with Minecraft because they thought it would help their students stay more engaged and, mostly, more interested in learning. I think using Minecraft in school would be more beneficial for teaching little kids. It is, probably, harder to engage little kids than it is to engage somebody who is in, let us say, high school or college student. Teaching a high school or college student would be bizarre and would, most likely, make them seem childish. However, there are, probably, plenty of high school and college students who play Minecraft. Microsoft is letting teacher's try the Minecraft education edition for free until September. After that, Microsoft is thinking of having students pay between $1 and $5 for a one-year subscription of the game. I think that is a pretty generous offer. Teacher's, if they wanted to, could include the cost of the Minecraft subscription with the other school supply fees their students have to pay, anyway.  The Minecraft education edition includes additional features that the regular version of Minecraft does not including chalkboards teachers can add to the game that display important information on them, an interface that would allow teachers to know where their students are on the map of the game, an in-game camera for screen shots, the ability for teachers to give their students resources for building, the ability for teachers to chat with their students, and the ability for teachers to chat with their students if they get lost.  I think this idea Microsoft has is a great one. Little kids get bored, so you have to make them interested in learning. Also, little kids want to have fun. Reading out of a text book for, let's say a history class, is not fun. Even for a high school or a college student, reading out of a textbook is boring. However, teachers can interest high school and college students by having them make arguments on what they read instead of having them play Minecraft. I would, though, like to see either High school or college students play Minecraft. I have never played Minecraft before, but it sounds interesting, even, to me. Minecraft might not be, just, for little kids; it might just be a fun game to play in general. Maybe Microsoft could think about convincing high school teachers and college professors to teach their students through Minecraft. I think, aside from being used to teach history, Minecraft could also be used to teach mathematics. As a little kid I would have enjoyed playing Minecraft as a funner way to learn.  I wonder if Minecraft could be incorporated in the IT class curriculum. Teachers, go teach some Minecraft.!