New CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm Minecraft adventure aims to teach kids about online safety
New CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm Minecraft adventure aims to teach kids about online safety
New CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm Minecraft adventure aims to teach kids about online safety
February 7, 2022
By Donovan Erskine
Summary
Minecraft: Education Edition is getting a world about cyber safety ahead of Safer Internet Day.
In its latest update, Minecraft: Education Edition will tackle cyber security with CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm, which will teach children about protecting their safety on the internet.
Details about the new content coming to Minecraft: Education Edition were shared in a new post to Xbox Wire.
With CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm, young people can learn how to easily identify common threats on the internet in order to protect themselves.
In CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm, players will make their way through 4 pillars of online security: Want to play online with me?, Online maze? I can complete it!, New emerald armor?! Definitely!, and Yummy! Pumpkin pie! These scenarios will see players having to make decisions about divulging personal information and dealing with the shady characters that they meet on the internet.
Microsoft urges parents and legal guardians to use CyberSafe: Home Sweet Hmm as a jumping off point to continue teaching children about internet safety.
Minecraft is already one of the most popular video games of all-time, and has proven to be quite the versatile tool for education.
Reference
Erskine, D. (2022, February 07). New cybersafe: Home sweet HMM minecraft adventure aims to teach kids about online safety. Retrieved March 01, 2022, from https://www.shacknews.com/article/128717/new-cybersafe-home-sweet-hmm-minecraft-adventure-aims-to-teach-kids-about-online-safety