{"id":95585,"date":"2019-06-21T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/345257"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:48:00","slug":"minecraft-education-edition-is-getting-an-immersive-reader-and-new-educator-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/21\/minecraft-education-edition-is-getting-an-immersive-reader-and-new-educator-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft: Education Edition is getting an Immersive Reader and new educator resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mojang is making some notable tweaks to <em>Minecraft: Education Edition<\/em> to help make the learning tool even more accessible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Designed specifically for classrooms, <em>Minecraft: Education Edition<\/em> was created to help educators teach a variety of subjects including computer science, chemistry,&nbsp;mathematics, and coding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/education.minecraft.net\/blog\/classroom-experience-updates-coming-to-minecraft-education-edition-for-back-to-school-2019\/\">An upcoming update<\/a> with bolster the game with the addition of an Immersive Reader, which will help readers of all abilities understand in-game text such as character dialogue, settings, and boards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the video above shows, the reader will break down sentences word-by-word and even read them aloud to students. It also contains <em>Minecraft<\/em>-specific images such as &#8216;Creeper&#8217; and &#8216;Mooshroom&#8217; to ensure aren&#8217;t left baffled by the game-specific lingo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dev team has also improved multiplayer and classroom management with a Single Sign-on (SSO) option to allow for one-click authentication. It should make for a more simplified and faster class login experience, and was implemented to streamline the process for younger students specifically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, new educator resources and free training programs will be added to help teachers properly get to grips with the title, allowing them to more effectively impart worldly wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>The new features will arrive as part of the Back to School 2019 update. Those interested in the Education Edition can find out more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/education.minecraft.net\/blog\/classroom-experience-updates-coming-to-minecraft-education-edition-for-back-to-school-2019\/\">official Minecraft blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mojang is making some notable tweaks to Minecraft: Education Edition to help make the learning tool even more accessible.&nbsp; Designed specifically for classrooms, Minecraft: Education Edition was created to help educators teach a variety of subjects including computer science, chemistry,&nbsp;mathematics, and coding.&nbsp; An upcoming update with bolster the game with the addition of an Immersive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}