I'd start with literacy, connectedness, empathy, engagement, enterprise and anthropophilia.
For those unfamiliar with the Education Edition, the idea is to bring the world of Minecraft to the classroom to be used as a learning tool where students can develop skills in areas like digital citizenship, empathy, literacy, and more.
The growing tension and love between Lizzie and Bridget as they teach each other, respectively, empathy and literacy sets Lizzie apart from so many other so-called lesbian films.
"The gateway to empathy is emotional literacy," said Michele Borba, an educational psychologist and the author of numerous parenting books, including UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World.
Rather, it aims to cultivate the development of empathy and emotional literacy, to reduce levels of bullying, aggression and violence, and to promote pro-social behaviour, among various civility-related aims.
Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
Mary Gordon is a former kindergarten teacher who founded Roots of Empathy, an organization dedicated to teaching emotional literacy and promoting empathy in children.
The company says that by having students create virtual worlds in Minecraft, they can learn a range of skills, like digital citizenship, empathy, social skills, and can even improve their literacy, while also getting real-time feedback from their teacher.
Literacy and the ability to read fiction for pleasure also give you empathy".
Tempting boys into fiction isn't just about building literacy skills for the sake of passing tests: it's about developing empathy and encouraging escapism.
