From fostering creativity to encouraging your child's social and emotional growth, pretend play—or imaginative play—is ...

Imagine entering a science classroom where rows of students sit in silence, eyes fixed on their notebooks as the teacher dictates line after line from the prescribed textbook. This is not ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nex, the leading motion technology company, and Sesame Workshop, the global impact nonprofit behind Sesame Street, are launching a new generation of educational games ...

Introduction / Katy Beale -- Case studies : creating games for museums. History at play : games, learning theory and play spaces at Conner Prairie / David Allison ; I spy : interpreting artworks ...

If you want to improve your aerobic capacity, play full-court basketball, not softball. To improve your analytical skills, learn to play chess or bridge, not Chutes and Ladders. If you really want to ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to more accurately describe how Mansfield Elementary’s test scores compare to those of other schools in Connecticut. When the doors to Mansfield Elementary ...

JEOPARDY!®, Wheel of Fortune® and trivia may sound more like activities for a game night with friends than a government training program. And that’s exactly the point. Government agencies are turning ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

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Games as miniature models of conflict among men are as old as chess and as new as the “wars” fought by scholars in such think factories as the Rand Corp. Carried by a tide of curriculum reform, games ...