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

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based ...

Though some might see video games as a distraction, a recent study from the University of Georgia suggests they can actually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Future teachers see educational potential in computer games, study shows. Teacher training should therefore address their potential in the classroom. Future teachers see educational potential in ...

Last school year, Holly Swartz decided to turn her 1st grade classroom into a galaxy far, far away. She created a giant, nine-weeks-long “Star Wars” game for her class, dividing her students into ...

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.

Kurt Squire first recognized the learning potential of games in 1987 in his history class in high school. When his teacher asked the students if they knew the differences between English and Spanish ...

Somewhere on the southern coast of Brazil 3,000 years in the past, a young indigenous man is preparing for the funeral of an elderly woman from his community. He needs to collect a stone artifact ...