UK education expert dismisses 'Minecraft' as a 'gimmick'

[Joystiq]

After offering teachers

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to Minecraft: Education Edition this summer, Microsoft's classroom-friendly version of the immensely popular sandbox game was formally launched at

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. Not everyone is keen on Minecraft being used as a teaching tool, though, and ahead of Microsoft's UK

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, behavior expert for the government's Department for Education Tom Bennett has voiced his skepticism to

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. "I am not a fan of Minecraft in lessons. This smacks to me of another gimmick which will get in the way of children actually learning," Bennett said.

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