Minecraft Learning Centres to be set up across Wales to help schools and colleges use the game in classrooms

Five Minecraft Learning Centres will be created in Wales to help school and colleges across the country use the popular block-building game to teach subjects such as science, history and coding.

The Welsh Government has launched the project to help students prepare for the workplace, as well as build key communication and critical thinking skills, using a game they are already comfortable with.

The educators who attend the Learning Centres will be taught how to use the “open-learning” environment of Minecraft: Education Edition to encourage creativity, self-expression and problem solving.

It comes just months after the Welsh Government invested £1.2 million to give 467,000 young people access to Office 365 and Minecraft: Education Edition via the country’s Hwb digital learning platform.