Cyber in Minecraft Standards Alignment

Cyber in Minecraft was awarded the ISTE Seal in May 2025.

The ISTE Seal (formerly known as the ISTE Seal of Alignment) serves as a mark of high-quality product design for solutions that enable and guide high-quality learning. With a focus on user experience, product usability, and the most essential elements of instructional technology today, the ISTE Seal provides a set of criteria and simple indicators to guide educators, students, and technology directors toward the very best products on the market.

ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) awards a seal only after an extensive analysis conducted by trained ISTE reviewers that ensures a product meets all critical elements under specific review criteria. By earning an ISTE Seal, ISTE verifies that this product:

• promotes critical technology skills;
• supports the use of technology in appropriate ways;
• incorporates digital pedagogy and the learning sciences;
• addresses key elements of tech usability, user experience and user interface; and
• aligns to ISTE Standards in specific ways.

The ISTE Seal findings report praised the thoughtful design, robust cybersecurity curriculum, and flexible implementation options, Cyber in Minecraft provides an education-ready solution that effectively prepares students for the challenges of today’s digital world while making the learning process engaging and accessible.

Cyber in Minecraft is aligned to the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) K-12 standards and the Cyber.Org K-12 Cybersecurity Learning Standards. A lot of US states have used these standards either as their cyber security standards or as a basis for their computer science standards.

Alignment details can be found on each credentials objective domain, listed below:

• Digital Citizenship
• Networking
• Security