Xbox is celebrating Safer Internet Day using the announcement of a new Minecraft Education experience, Privacy Prodigy. The free downloadable Minecraft world is a gamified experience aimed at 7 to 18-year-olds that teaches the significance of protecting private data when online.
Privacy Prodigy is really a single-player experience occur the familiar blocky world of Minecraft that guides young people because they discover the idea of trust and when or if not to talk about personal data like passwords, home addresses, and make contact with numbers. It's separated into four areas that represent different circles of rely upon their community, spanning in the immediate family within their the place to find public spaces, as they sort out what kinds of data they may want to protect or share in these places.
Personal information is represented by adorable data byte creatures that need to be protected and guided through each zone. Users also determine what to complete if their information is compromised while battling data breaches in-game.
Privacy Prodigy follows on from the previous installment within the Minecraft Education Cybersafe series, Home Sweet Hmm, which taught players the importance of thinking before hitting links or friend requests when navigating the web.
In a statement released via the Xbox website, the company says the release of this game, as well as their wider Cybersafe series, is really a 'fun way to engage through creative learning environments,' while helping young people to remain safe in the digital world.
With major data breaches becoming increasingly more common, finding out how to protect personal information an internet-based safety, even on the smaller scale, is all the greater important. Privacy Prodigy is yet another tool that can assist young people in building digital literacy while engaging these questions more interactive, gamified process. The result is other similar games teaching online safety and responsibility like Google's Interland, a part of their Be Internet Awesome program.
Privacy Prodigy is available now within the Minecraft Education lesson library, as well as with the Minecraft Industry for players using the Bedrock version of the game.
