{"id":108,"date":"2016-01-20T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:12:17","slug":"microsoft-is-turning-minecraft-into-an-educational-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/2016\/01\/20\/microsoft-is-turning-minecraft-into-an-educational-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is turning Minecraft into an &#8216;educational tool&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 20th 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/01\/21\/microsoft_to_make_minecraft_classroom_tool\/\">Microsoft is launching an educational version of Minecraft.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Often younger kids can struggle at school because they&#8217;re bored of the standard class structure, but if you can make learning fun then children will do that. What&#8217;s great about this Microsoft has fully understood this. They&#8217;ve take\u00a0a fun and interactive game, and given it to children to learn which could boost their knowledge in the future and reduce stress levels for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20th 2016 Microsoft is launching an educational version of Minecraft. Often younger kids can struggle at school because they&#8217;re bored of the standard class structure, but if you can make learning fun then children will do that. What&#8217;s great about this Microsoft has fully understood this. They&#8217;ve take\u00a0a fun and interactive game, and given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benefits-and-valuable-applications-of-computer-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/scc205blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}