Swedish school introduces compulsory Minecraft lessons

A small Swedish school got into the news feeds of a lot of news resources, just making the superplay in the Minecraft sandbox genre mandatory for its students.

The logic of these actions is simple: teaching video games should not teach reading, writing skills, arithmetic, their teaching ability is ensured by completely different principles. Allowing its players to build from cubes of substance various structures and to show the results of their construction, the game "Minecraft" encourages a neat and assiduous process of creativity. The game can develop the creativity of adolescents without rejecting the process of mechanical learning, rigid curriculum and unpleasant atmosphere of the school class.

First of all, this decision was influenced by the universally recognized value of the game, as well as the love of the studio author for his brainchild: not so long ago , the free Minecraft port was created on the Raspberry Pi platform.
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According to Swedish sources, the Victor Rydberg School in Stockholm approved Minecraft in a curriculum for students aged 13. Monika Ekman, a school teacher, believes that the game develops urban planning skills, and the essence of the game is no different from fine art or woodworking lessons.

"Minecraft" does not replace the basic disciplines, but is only one of the subjects for thirteen-year students. Perhaps the lessons involving the game will be used in the future. Ekman says they are pleased with the result and will introduce more Minecraft lessons.

Of course, this is just a separate example, but such events demonstrate a new stage in the already non-commercial recognition of this extremely popular indie game. At the moment, it has already sold 17.5 million copies.
According to the materials of the Swedish newspaper The Local