Build AI literacy and digital citizenship with Minecraft Education’s AI Foundations
Minecraft Education's AI Foundations offers a set of accessible, engaging materials for building AI literacy with Minecraft. The program is designed to empower learners, educators, and families with a fundamental understanding of how AI works and how to use AI tools responsibly. A series of animated videos teaches learners the basics of AI. Then, learners play through real-world scenarios in immersive Minecraft worlds.
Minecraft Education's AI literacy worlds help learners:
- Discover how AI can help us solve real-world problems
- Demystify the risks and opportunities of AI
- Build confidence through game-based learning
The curriculum includes the AI Adventures video series. With three short videos, learners journey alongside two curious companions and explore the world of AI. The series is produced in partnership with Microsoft’s Democracy Forward initiative and includes:
- Class-ready teaching materials
- A guide for guardians
- A free movie poster to capture young imaginations and spark discussion
Learners can then explore the principles of responsible AI and discover ways AI can help solve real-world problems through a set of Minecraft coding lessons.
- Fantastic Fairgrounds: Build AI literacy and learn about history, ethics, and careers in AI.
- AI for Earth: Learn the principles of AI by exploring the use of AI for preserving wildlife and ecosystems, helping people in remote areas, and researching climate change.
- Hour of Code: Generation AI: Venture through time to create helpful AI-powered inventions, using problem solving, creativity, and computational thinking along with the principles of responsible AI.
- Hour of Code: AI for Good: Learn coding basics and explore a real-world example of artificial intelligence by collecting data about forest fires.
- Coding with Minecraft: AI: Explore the connection between AI and computer science.
- The Investigations: Improve information literacy skills by evaluating biases, decoding clues, and uncovering the truth.
Educators can also use the Minecraft Prompt Lab to learn how to use Copilot with sample prompts. With Minecraft Prompt Lab for Educators, educators:
- Explore the basics of writing a good educational prompt
- Learn how to use Copilot to create engaging game-based STEM lesson plans for Minecraft Education
- Learn how to use Copilot to create assessment materials personalized to learners’ needs, curriculum standards, and educational goals
With Minecraft Education's AI literacy solutions, families can explore AI together with discussion guides and fun gameplay, and educators can use the AI Foundations program to:
- Supplement core curriculum
- Spark class engagement
- Inspire learning about AI
Explore all the resources available at aka.ms/MinecraftAI.