The tragedy of this announcement is all the "good stuff" in minecraft is in the mods. For your specific redstone logic problems, try the "project red" mod. It

The tragedy of this announcement is all the "good stuff" in minecraft is in the mods. For your specific redstone logic problems, try the "project red" mod. Its in plenty of FTB packs. http://ftbwiki.org/Project_Red http://ftbwiki.org/Project_Red You could make some points about chemistry using minechem. Maybe not much deep knowledge but something basic might seep in. Across many mods there tends to be an inherent bias toward industrialization / capitalist investment. Produce things slowly by hand or quickly with an assembly line and even faster with speed upgrades. I suppose there are kids who are extremely fuzzy on the basic concepts of steam based electrical power generation and railcraft and big reactors would clarify some of that. There are probably ecological lessons in terrafirmacraft and the numerous food mods. Not all of minecraft is "apples come from oak trees" or whatever. I suspect it works very well for shallow gaining interest, very well for signalling, not so well for serious learning. Kinda like ipads in schools. Or computers in school, in general.