Teachers and children will need to think in a more computational way in classrooms to be ready for the world of work

Children need to start thinking in a different way if they are to be ready for a world of work that will be heavily reliant on computers, writes Ailin Quinlan. A Microsoft project is using the hugely popular game of Minecraft to highlight how teachers need to be upskilled if this is to happen

Imagine being lucky enough to have a teacher who’s willing to put sums and geography aside for a while to let you play Minecraft?

For most school-kids, game-based learning in the classroom is the stuff of daydreams — but it’s exactly what 31 sixth class pupils in Dermot Walsh’s class at St Anne’s primary school in Dublin’s Shankill got to do.