Minecraft: Education Edition

This technology resource is the perfect website to get students of any ages between K-12 engaged in, on a computer in the classroom. This education edition takes everything from the original Mincraft and adds collaboration and communication tools that are geared towards classroom instruction. Since a lot of children are familiar with minecraft, being able to use this as an educational platform gets them excited and engaged.
Teachers have view of the "world" and create a point of location for all the students to group in the game, If a student wanders off, teachers can relocate the student's avatar back to the meeting point. teachers can make different size display boards with learning objectives. Students can take pictures of their creations and add it to a portfolio to check out their progress. The website makes it easy for teachers to just download lesson plans and incorporate the website in their curriculum. If teachers do not want to use the already made lessons they can use it in their own creative way. For example: the code builder can be used in a programming class.

Minecraft Education Edition
I will leave a link for the original Minecraft website as well for those that are not familiar: Minecraft