Playing and studying are not incompatible activities. A team of researchers looked into integrating virtual graphic adventures into online education platforms and analyzes the educational and ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. For years, John Miller, a 7th-grade history teacher in King City, struggled to engage ...

In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, ...

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 ...

I’m unboxing a huge MindWare delivery filled with brainy games and toys for my classroom. From magnetic design sets and viral ...

Rhys James Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

I learned quite a bit from a tiny robot named 2-XL. If you’re not an official Old™ like me, you may not remember this kids’ toy, which first appeared in 1978, and was a glorified 8-track cassette ...

In a few college classrooms around the country, students in introductory astronomy classes explore the galaxy as part of a crew tasked with finding a habitable planet. Along the way, they have to ...