So you want to know what the best educational games are? Well, good for you. Educational videogames can provide fun and unique learning experiences, and we're not afraid to say that they can actually ...

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has launched ExoDexa, a learning games platform incorporating K-12 curriculum. Bushnell serves as chairman of ExoDexa, joined by Leah Hanes as CEO and president. Hanes is ...

If you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that’s 5% of your life. Will this time investment do anything good for your brain? This is a question that my colleagues and I at UC Santa ...

A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. Don Rawitsch, with the help of two ...

Learning is a chore. Literally, it’s the first thing many of us encounter that we are told we have to do in spite of the fact we don’t want to. We know it's important for us to learn about things like ...

She said computer science has been on the primary school curriculum since 2014, but "the way it is taught varies and we'd like to see more video games being used to help facilitate that learning".

The recent box office smash hit Minecraft is based on a very popular video game by the same name. It's known for its block graphics, calming music that set the vibe for players to "mine" for building ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University personnel have designed an online simulation that allows students and adults to experiment with how land-use practices can affect the health of a watershed. People ...