Kids are natural game designers. See how they can benefit from forming bonds around their passions in game jams and community organizations.
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Celebrate World Oceans Day in Minecraft
Happy World Oceans Day! Today, we celebrate and honor the ocean–its power to sustain life, regulate our planet’s climate, and connect us all.
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How Homeschool Mentors Support Gifted Homeschoolers
Wired homeschooling families now have access to vast learning resources, and can transcend geographic limitations to network with other kids and families around the world.
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5 Days to Live or Die: Survival Summer Camp
Would you know what to do if you and fifteen others were trapped in a mine (or underwater, in a volcano, or ice dungeon) with only an iron axe and 10 pieces of beef jerky to go around? Find out what it takes to thrive in Survival Camp.
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Can Minecraft Help Raise A Generation of Good Gamers?
My kids are only toddlers but I recognize how critical it will be for me to teach them how to handle conflict more effectively. According
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How Libraries Can Build Communities with Minecraft
On Thursday afternoons, in the heart of the Beacon Hill Library in Seattle, you might find an animated group of youth on laptops designing parkour
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How Unschooling Families Leverage Digital Games and Connectivity
To many, unschooling is a radical approach that is practiced in the exotic outer rings of education. Its rejection of formal education in favor of
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Kids Learning and Inventing: JAM’s New Online Engineering Course
Product: Invent Your Own Machines (ages 9-14) Glows: A unique approach to online learning that is playful, social, and personalized. Grows: While the flexibility of
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Connected Camps Goes to Minefaire
Did you know that you can make a working calculator in Minecraft with redstone? Torches and repeaters can be combined to create binary signals with
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Sky’s the Limit: Just for Girls Online Summer Camps
Celebrating the Power of Girls’ Creativity We believe being a girl comes with special superpowers and our Just for Girls online summer camps are designed
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