Some of the best games are also the hardest to teach. We all know the pain of watching some of your favorite games gather dust because you can’t get anyone to sit through the 2 hour tutorial. This is ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

NEW YORK – It is an exciting time to be part of the games-for-change community. For a few years now, there has been great deal of interest in using videogame technology to improve health and education ...

In the past, I have covered many studies that look at the efficacy of game based learning. But a recent study from A-GAMES, a collaboration between New York University and the University of Michigan, ...

If schools adopted some of the strategies that video games use, they could educate children more effectively, according to experts. Some parents might see video games as an impediment to children ...

Richard N. Van Eck answered questions about when games should be explored as instructional tools, what advantages games bring to the classroom, and how to overcome obstacles that make game integration ...