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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shawn Young has a class full of warriors, mages, and healers. Warriors get to eat in class, mages can teleport out of a lecture, and healers can ask if an exam answer is correct. But this isn’t some ...

Classrooms have changed with the aid of new technology. Many once commonplace activities are now all but gone. These are several of the classic classroom activities that only Baby Boomers will ...

Inside: Christmas Bingo Cards for Kids When you need a festive activity that’s easy to prep, fun for kids, and works for ...