Game-based learning has become synonymous with educational video games in some circles, but low-tech games have been used with great success in classrooms for a while. In fact, games that don’t ...

The new question-of-the-week is: Do games have a role in teaching and learning in the classroom? If so, how should they be used? Games are often used in the classroom. However, what makes them ...

A social media firestorm ignited earlier this month when the Danish company Serious Games Interactive discounted its educational 2013 video game Playing History 2: Slave Trade on Steam, the online ...

Games are being used much more widely in schools than they were when I first started writing about them 2 or 3 years ago. As of fall 2013, 74% of K-8 teachers were using digital games. 55% of these ...

In the spring of 2012, my Sophomore English class was reading Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold Bug.” In the story, characters decipher secret messages as they attempt to find buried treasure.

Youth suicide rates in Ireland could be curbed by implementing an internationally renowned classroom behavioural game, an education expert has said. An innovative classroom behaviour game – tested in ...

Can technology help kids develop empathy? Due to the rise of virtual reality experiences, there’s been some buzz lately about the impact technology might have on how we understand and share the ...

For years, John Miller, a 7th-grade history teacher in King City, struggled to engage his students in world history lessons. Most of his students were English learners, had very low literacy rates and ...