Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular computer games, is being turned into an educational tool in an ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week, students around the world will participate in Hour of Code, a grassroots movement founded by national nonprofit Code.org to make coding more accessible.

The following is an excerpt from MakeCode for Minecraft, a block-based approach to computer science using the popular game Minecraft. The full curriculum is available ...

A Spanish teacher gives us the low-down on how the open world game can engage language learners in new ways. Glen Irvin has taught Spanish for the past 13 years at Wabasha-Kellogg High School in ...

One small step for a Minecraft character is one giant leap for artificial intelligence. The Microsoft Research team in New York City spends its days trying to train an AI agent to learn how to ...

Mojang’s free-form game of building, survival, and exploration isn’t just one of the most popular games of all time — it has also been used extensively in classrooms around the world for the past few ...

Ramey's passion for videos games blossomed at the age of 8, with medieval fantasy games such as Runescape and Skyrim. What inspired him to become a writer however, was those games' ability to allow ...

Jason learned to read playing Pokemon Crystal on the Game Boy Color, and hasn't looked back. He received a Journalism degree at California State University, Fullerton while working on news coverage ...