“A team of Caltech researchers has mined pop culture to create a new computer game that connects with youngsters who put up a wall between them and learning quantum mechanics.The researchers joined game developers from E-Line Media and MineCraftEdu to develope “qCraft.” The Google-funded project takes the world of the popular game “Minecraft” and injects it with lessons on quantum mechanics, the physics that governs the behavior of matter and light at both the atomic and subatomic scale….”
via Caltech uses popular computer game ‘Minecraft’ as educational tool.