'Schoolifying' Minecraft without ruining it

'Schoolifying' Minecraft without ruining it
- August 9, 2017
- Mimi Ito, anthropology, gives perspective on NPR, Aug. 9, 2017
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"Scrappy educators and hackers and YouTubers kept adding stuff on, and it was very
much an organic, geek-led movement," says Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at UC
Irvine who studies how children and teens use media. She is also the founder of an
online Minecraft summer camp.
For the full story, please visit http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/09/539518179/schoolifying-minecraft-without-ruining-it?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr.
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