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 ...

In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

New study results by a research team at the University of Cologne show that future teachers increasingly want to use computer games in the classroom. The study identifies particularly relevant aspects ...

Still, even if "edutainment" was a Trojan horse of math and history lessons dressed up in blocky '90s graphics, there's no denying we spent hours on that Oregon trail or trying to find Carmen Sandiego ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to EdTech and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Given all the options for computing in the modern day — tablets, laptops and ...

Terrence Smith has been writing since his early childhood, when he wrote his first fanfiction: Taz in the Temple of Cyber Power. He has grown up on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles in the ...

Have a question for Hannah Tolley or our other editors? Ask here for a chance to be featured in a story. Submit your question This form is protected by reCAPTCHA ...

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 ...

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses. The resource – GameDev ...