One of the most frequent challenges at the forefront of most stories I write about educational games is how to balance fun and engagement with instructional content and learning, or in other words, ...

In order to take learning to the next level, there's an experiment in Pittsburgh that brings game designers closer to the educators who want games for learning. The hope is that by working together, ...

If you’ve homeschooled for any length of time, you know the panic that hits when you realize your child forgot how to multiply fractions—or worse, that you can’t quite remember how to explain it ...

Pixicade is as simple as Draw, Snap, and Play with their exciting new app-based video game design system that provides a unique play experience for kids to turn their artwork into playable video games ...

Before your child can add and subtract, they need to count. Start at a young age and teach your child about numbers with fun, interesting counting games. When your child is first learning how to count ...

Evolutionarily speaking, we are built to enjoy learning. Neuroscientists (and those of us who spend time with young children) know this to be true—but institutionalized education tends to dim the joy ...

Building a strong vocabulary doesn’t always require thick books or screen-heavy apps. Sometimes, the best learning happens during laughter-filled moments at home. Children absorb words like sponges, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite classroom games? In Part One, Shannon Jones, Jennifer Bay-Williams, Molly Ness, and Sheniqua Johnson shared their favorites. Today, Jenny Vo, ...

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. So if games are fun, and learning ...