3D game-based world targets language skills
Learning-based game provider JumpStart launched a 3D online world based on DreamWorks Animation’s new Penguins of Madagascar film. The World of Madagascar is a 3D online world that…
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4 Essential Game-Based Learning Questions
You’d have to live under a rock to be unfamiliar with the rise of game-based learning in classrooms across the nation in recent years. Integrating a game into…
6 Minecraft lesson ideas for your Common Core math class
Last year I taught third-grade math in a whole new way. Combining elements from the wildly popular sandbox game Minecraft, I had students thinking visually and creatively about…
Schools gain free gaming with SimCityEDU
Partnership between game developer and ed-tech company grants free gaming access for 2014-2015 school year Nonprofit developer GlassLab will partner ... Read more
5 Twitter hashtags you should be searching
Social media remains a game-changer in education. Through platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, students are able to collaborate on projects or discussions about assignments. Educators connect with…
7 TED Talks about gaming’s potential
Every educator needs some inspiration now and then, and these days, such inspiration can be found online in just a few seconds. The internet brings inspiring and motivational…
Google, gaming, and going mobile: Today’s 5 tech trends
A few years ago the education world found itself entranced by the iPad, a powerful tablet that promised to revolutionize one-to-one programs and revitalize teacher engagement with technology…
Wanted: Immersive gaming in K-8 classrooms
Seventy-four percent of K-8 teachers in a recent report said they use digital games for instruction, though few teachers reported engaging students with immersive games that offer in-depth…
7 STEM apps designed by students
Students from across the United States met with congressional leaders and the Obama administration to show STEM apps and games they've developed.
Students receive innovation grants for games and apps
At a special luncheon in Washington, D.C., 20 students from across the United States received awards from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and the Entertainment Software Association as Leaders…
How can we engage all learners? Let students play
When students are put in an environment in which they can learn their own way without fear, they become lifelong independent learners.
Games: The new learning experience
It seems you can’t go anywhere in the education world without hearing about game-based learning. At its core, game-based learning connects learning and meaning to content to give…
Try a subject-agnostic role-playing game for your class
Classcraft is a free online educational role-playing game that teachers and students play together in the classroom.
4 ways games make it ‘OK to play’
While technology is a powerful learning tool, there are still concerns about how tech tools are used, as well as how much screen time young children should experience.…
How Minecraft can help with Common Core math
As gaming gains steam and loses its stigma in the wake of educators who champion its engaging nature, more teachers are incorporating the strategy into their instruction. One…
5 gaming dynamics that truly engage students
Gaming. It’s more than a buzzword in today’s schools, but it still sometimes carries a stigma--is gaming really an effective way for students to learn? The answer, according…
Why everything about personalized learning is about to change
Be prepared to be amazed...very amazed. A quantum leap in the way online learning materials are organized and presented to students is happening as you read this. It…
How games can engage students and improve learning
Teachers have used games as a part of instruction long before the advent of computer games. The reason is that teachers recognize the emotional energy that is created…
Gaming in education: ‘We don’t need no stinking badges’
Washington, D.C.– When video game designer and writer Lee Sheldon designed a physical fitness class called “Skeleton Chase,” he didn’t ask any students to climb into a sewer…
12 big technologies on the education horizon
Much of technology's potential remains untapped in today's classrooms, but the more stakeholders know about how technology tools can transform learning, the more those technologies can truly influence…
8 examples of how gaming is changing education
Once accompanied by a stigma, educational gaming has gained even more momentum over the past year. Across the nation, teachers are recognizing that engaging and immersive educational games…
Using games to measure student skills
Game-based learning is one of the most popular trends in education today, and for good reason--a well-designed game engages students, boosts their interest in the topic it addresses,…
5 digital learning trends in museums
Museums are a popular field trip destination, but as learning becomes more digital, more and more museums are offering digital learning programs designed to engage students and give…
Minecraft’s potential in today’s classrooms
Gaming is gaining more and more momentum in education, and one of the most popular games today is Minecraft, which educators are using in innovative ways in classrooms…
Speak Up: The current state of digital learning
While girls use many digital tools for learning more than boys, more boys than girls say they are interested in STEM careers--however, student interest in STEM careers has…
7 ways to evaluate educational games
As educational gaming moves from a future technology to a practice found in more and more classrooms, educators are recognizing game-based learning's (GBL) potential to engage students and…
How can developers make meaningful learning games for classrooms?
Though many educators are excited about game-based learning, the movement is still very much in a state of transition, Mind/Shift reports.
Research-based games help make learning fun again
Young children are naturally curious, and one of the main ways they learn is through play. Yet, when they arrive at school, too often this sense of play…
Top 10 ed-tech stories of 2013, No. 7: Gaming
Once accompanied by a stigma, educational gaming has gained even more momentum over the past year. Across the nation, teachers are recognizing that engaging and immersive educational games…
Beyond Minecraft: Games that inspire building and exploration
The success and popularity of Minecraft in and out of classrooms is no surprise, Mind/Shift reports.
More educators turning to educational gaming
Engaging forms of educational gaming offer real-time data, individualized learning opportunities Educational gaming has been present in classrooms and schools ... Read more
Gaming with a purpose – financial literacy
Okay, so one thing is clear: Youth are hooked on technology. Computers, smartphones, tablets, social media, video games... the list goes on, the Huffington Post reports.
Teachers finding games give a leg up on learning
Heidi McDonald saw her fourth-grade son, Ian, growing bored while memorizing his multiplication tables and figured he would make better progress if she could make the exercise fun,…
Using games and apps to teach writing
We may be too literal when we think about what it means to be a good writer, Forbes reports.
Making our schools “SuperBetter” with GBL
Jane McGonigal charged me up for more than the 7.5 minutes of life extension she promised, the Huffington Post reports.
This board game aims to teach preschoolers how to code
These days, the effort to get more of us writing computer programs has become part of an "everybody should learn to code" ethos that folks like President Obama…
Disruptions: Minecraft, an obsession and an educational tool
If you were to walk into my sister’s house in Los Angeles, you’d hear a bit of yelling from time to time. “Luca! Get off Minecraft! Luca, are…