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By Teri Llach
September 7, 2022
Today’s kids love Minecraft. That much we know for sure. But what exactly is Minecraft? And perhaps more importantly, are there any benefits to playing it?
Minecraft just may be the most popular video game of all time. With over 176 million copies sold to date, its certainly one for the record books, and its cultural impact is undeniable.
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Minecraft has no limits for kids. Each player decides their own goals. It can be an immersive experience that inspires self-exploration, project management, and creativity.
Modding with Minecraft means the user has made their own personal change or alteration to the game. That’s where the fun is! And that’s where kids are most motivated to learn.
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Modding with Minecraft is a springboard for learning how to code—by enabling kids to make their own coding projects.
Tynker Minecraft Modding courses and projects are fun and educational!
With Tynker, you can invent “Minecraft mods” and even multi-player games, use events for dynamic code, change animal behavior and characters with code, and...
Change their world’s looks by customizing textures, items, skins, and more
Along the way, they also learn key computer science ideas such as sequencing commands to construct buildings, keeping score with variables, using conditional logic to write programs that “make decisions”, triggering code using different events
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Perhaps more than anything, Minecraft allows kids to see themselves in computing by “defanging” a scary topic — and motivating them to continue through adversity and learn by doing