Minecraft Education is coming to ISTE!
12 Jun 2025
The Minecraft Education team is thrilled to be heading to San Antonio in just a few weeks for ISTE Live 2025—we can’t wait to see you there!
We are bringing hands-on fun, classroom-ready ideas, and new tools powered by AI to help you level up learning with Minecraft—while building essential STEM skills and boosting digital literacy. From booth to classroom, we’re bringing the energy with demos, workshops, and a high energy esports workshop-meets-build-battle for educators sure to spark creativity in the classroom.
Here’s how to join the fun:
- Visit us in Microsoft’s booth 1800 for a demo, Minecraft Chicken selfie, and to spin the Wheel of Steve!
- Drop into the Microsoft Live Learn Classroom (221A) for hands-on workshops including Build a Chicken, an epic creative build battle for teachers to get a taste of esports
- Swing by the Microsoft Learn Live theater (booth 1800) for bite-sized sessions on how to teach coding and AI with Minecraft Education
- Follow the ISTE action at @PlayCraftLearn on X and Facebook and join the Minecraft Teachers’ Lounge to keep the conversations going with our global community of educators.
Here’s a look at our full schedule with links to add these sessions to your ISTE calendar:
Workshops in the Microsoft Live Learn Classroom:
Your authentic AI journey: tools and skills for every stage
Monday, June 30 1:30pm-2:15pm
Tuesday, July 1 2:00pm-2:35pm
Discover tools and frameworks to equip your class, school, or district for an AI-powered future. Whether it’s unpacking AI literacy, reflecting on learnings from past transformations, or getting better at identifying the hallmarks of responsibility designed tools, this hands-on workshop provides something for everyone to chart their path with confidence.
Digital Citizenship in the AI Era: Teaching Cyber Safety with Minecraft
Monday, June 30 10:30am-11:15am
Wednesday, July 2 11:30am-12:15pm
Empower your students to navigate the AI-driven digital landscape safely and confidently. In this interactive session, explore strategies to leverage Minecraft Education’s standards-aligned curriculum focused on digital citizenship, data privacy, cybersecurity, and responsible AI usage. Experience how Minecraft’s hands-on approach fosters critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and proactive cyber safety practices.
Build a Chicken: Run an Esports Challenge with Minecraft
Roll up your sleeves and prepare to dive into a blocky build challenge! No Minecraft experience required! Experience how to run an esports event and hear exciting esports news from the Minecraft Education team. Learn how Esports and game-based learning foster STEM skills, collaboration, and creativity, enhancing engagement in classroom.
Pre-register here: https://aka.ms/mceduesportsatiste
Creation Lab: Minecraft Education as a Frame for Learning: Artificial Intelligence Middle School CTE
Participants will learn AI foundational knowledge through Minecraft Education lessons, developed in collaboration with the University of Florida EQuIPD Program and Microsoft Minecraft Education team. The lessons align with the 2026 Grades 6-8 Artificial Intelligence Standards for Florida Career and Technical Education. They emphasize engineering design thinking, as students rebuild a village destroyed by zombies, solving engineering problems using AI concepts. Students can explore Minecraft Education maps like Fantastic Fairgrounds, Sustainable City, and Cyber Heroes, and code an AI Agent in MakeCode to manage farms in the village. The curriculum integrates AI education with hands-on game play.
Microsoft Booth Theater:
Build AI Literacy for All with Minecraft Education
Equip learners with the skills to understand and interact with AI through innovative AI literacy lessons in Minecraft Education’s AI Foundations program. Introduce learners to core AI concepts, ethical considerations, and real-world applications that promote critical thinking and creativity, enabling students to cultivate informed and responsible digital citizenship skills.
Creative Coding with AI and Minecraft
Learn how to bring coding into any classroom with Minecraft and Prodigy Learning. With lessons in AI, Python, cybersecurity, and game design, see why Minecraft is the ticket to making CS fun and meaningful. Empower every learner to code, build career pathways, and ignite a passion for CS and AI.
Improving Math Outcomes with Minecraft
Discover how Minecraft Education can transform math instruction by enhancing students’ conceptual understanding, problem-solving skills, and engagement with fun, immersive and research supported approaches. Empower educators with effective strategies that can drive student outcomes by developing student-centered learning experiences through Minecraft’s immersive and interactive environment.
Come explore how Minecraft Education helps students build essential skills like computational thinking, creative problem solving, and online safety through game-based learning. Through immersive lessons and standards-aligned curriculum, Minecraft makes learning feel like play—while shaping the next generation of digital citizens.
We can’t wait to share what’s in store for Back to School 2025 and hear what you learned this school year. Thanks for an awesome year and see you in Texas!
