When the weather outside is frightful, the right activity can transform students’ pent-up energy into laughter, movement, and ...

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 ...

Rick Brennan and Jason Darnell, social studies teachers in Houston, created Historia so that students would take an active role in learning About six years ago and six years into a career as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

November 13, 2025 - Many mentoring and tutoring programs in K-12 schools rely partially on federal grants through AmeriCorps — funding that President Donald Trump has proposed entirely eliminating.