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# The school where Minecraft is mandatory
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/school-where-minecraft-mandatory/
- Published: 2013-01-11T18:31:20.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:43:12.000Z
- Description: No, it’s not just a sweet daydream. It’s real, and it’s in Sweden: An international competition for city planning inspired instructors at the Viktor Rydberg secondary school to make freeform construction game Minecraft a compulsory part of the curriculum. About 180 students around 13 years old have
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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No, it’s not just a sweet daydream. [It’s real, and it’s in Sweden](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121446-Swedish-School-Employs-Mandatory-Minecraft-Course?utm%5Fsource=rss&utm%5Fmedium=rss&utm%5Fcampaign=news):

> An international competition for city planning inspired instructors at the Viktor Rydberg secondary school to make freeform construction game *Minecraft* a compulsory part of the curriculum.  
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> About 180 students around 13 years old have begun to play – and work – in *Minecraft* at Viktor Rydberg. “They learn about city planning, environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the future,” says Monica Ekman, a teacher. Her lessons in the game involve constructing realistic cities, complete with power and water networks. The game’s strengths, according to Ekman, are its gender-neutral mechanics and aesthetic, and its focus on slow, gradual construction. “The boys knew a lot about it before we even started, but the girls were happy to create and build something too – it’s not any different from arts or woodcraft.”

While we’re falling all over ourselves to figure out how to get kids to embrace[ STEM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM%5Ffields?ref=killscreen.com) fields and close the STEM gap with the other developed nations, Sweden is all, “let them play videogames and trick them into learning.” Parents, take note.