Sometimes A Little More Minecraft May Be Quite All Right
Coding Bootcamp2020-04-17T15:23:54-04:00Before taking vacation, I caught up with Mel McGee during a coding bootcamp she runs in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She was explaining to a handful of preteens how to use red stone dust to make an electrical wire. "We try to drop some engineering stuff, real-world concepts in there and how it relates to what they're building in Minecraft," she says. So, if you're using it for good, does it count as screen time? I asked Dr. Victor Strasburger, who helped write the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations 15 years ago. "We're not a bunch of old fuddy-duddies sitting around trying [...]