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There's been blogs saying minecraft is educational, which i 100% disagree with, i'll give you reasons why:<br><br>1. It's too unrealistic in order to educate.<br>Some of those blogs i've talked about have said that minecraft is educational because it has real life ores, trees etc, but still it's not how it is in real life, you can't educate kids with a unrealistic game people, i mean can you punch wood in realife? no, can you just make anything with your bare hands in realife? no, see my point?<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>2. It's too mindnumbing.<br>Now this is where i'll probably get flamed for this, but i don't care, if you want your kid to get educated by a game, don't pick minecraft, don't take it the wrong way i like minecraft, but it's a serious waste of time, let's say you spent what, like 2-3 hours on minecraft? did i get smarter? no, did i become more educated? no, all i did was waste my time, kids are just going to spend so much time on the game and learn nothing, they'll probably drop grades.<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>And finally..<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>3. The game never was meant to be educatonal.<br>When notch first developed the game, he never had an idea for it to be educational, and i'm sure he never wanted it to be, so i don't think people should claim MC as educational, nothing is educational about blocks anyways.
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Now the potential it has for educational applications is ENORMOUS and the reasons why aren't "because it has real life ores, trees etc". Whoever's telling you that doesn't fully understand why Minecraft's considered by many to be an educational game.
The game itself most notably helps to develop spacial reasoning skills which are extremely helpful in subjects such as geometry, architecture, interior design, etc. Learning to work well with redstone helps develop innovation and problem solving skills which can be helpful in engineering, various mathematics, etc. The overall theme of encouraging a creative mindset can carry over into fine arts as well.
Plus, IT'S A VIDEO GAME (WOOT). Who doesn't enjoy those? Create a world set in a historical time period and have a player play through a notable historical event. BOOM history and geography. Am I going to remember some boring passage about the Roman Empire I read out of a textbook? Most likely...no. Am I going to remember details a world where I'm playing through a story set during the Roman Empire? Heck yes; AND I'll actualy enjoy it.
(I'm getting excited just typing this)
Believe it or not, Minecraft is already being used in some classrooms around the world in ways like these.
There's a whole world of effects it has on developing cognation too that I'm not going to get into because it takes too long.
The game can help people acquire the skills necessary to easily learn things, but it probably won't help anyone actually learn anything unless some prebuilding is done.
just got carried away when I started typing it X)