Minecraft education edition has one particular use case that makes it very helpful in certain classes, those being computer science classes. This is because it comes with a built-in plugin builder and code compiler, which runs off of either Javascript or Python, and includes a block mode for newer programmers to more easily work out how coding works. Using Minecraft, I've made a handfull of plugins myself, but my most complete is a robotic miner that strip mines for resources, which you can find here!