Future classrooms are here

A pupil of Alder Academies learns through the video game, Minecraft. [Courtesy]

Students aged below ten are huddled around a table, each on a laptop, deeply engrossed in a world of their own creation.

To a casual observer, it would seem like they are just playing video games, but it is a classroom set-up, where they are actually learning through the video game, Minecraft, putting what they learned in theory into practice.