To help parents and educators choose the best ones, we explored several leading educational game sites — including OnlineGames.io, PBS Kids, and Coolmath Games — to see how they compare in terms of ...

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Wuzzit Trouble, from InnerTube games, is new in the app store this week. Innertube Games is a learning-games studio founded by four enthusiasts, including the world famous Dr. Keith Devlin: the NPR ...

Digital learning games have officially gone mainstream, with nearly three-quarters of K-8 teachers saying they use the games for classroom instruction, according to a new national survey. But the rise ...

Games have gone a long way since they first appeared. At first, many people thought games were time-wasteful and that they couldn’t help people in any way. However, games are everywhere now, and ...

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? Part One ‘s contributors were Susan Lafond, Eric Schildge, Michael ...

The authors recognized what video game designers had already learned: that people are motivated to make progress—to reach ...

Thomas Seiler works for the Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach. He has spent the last year developing a ...

You’ve gotten that new game and brought it home. There it sits, in its pretty cellophane, just waiting to be played. When the time comes to put cardboard to table, though, you’ll need to teach your ...

Psychologists discussed violent video games and realized that video games use the same techniques that really great teachers use. Students who played multiple violent video games actually learned ...